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January was fifth hottest on record despite cold snap: EU monitor
January 2026 was 1.47°C warmer than pre-industrial levels despite cold waves in Europe and the US, with Arctic sea ice extent at its third-lowest January level, Copernicus said.
- January 2026 was the fifth hottest on record globally, according to the EU's climate monitor.
- The average global temperature in January was 1.47 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times, as reported by the Copernicus Climate Change Service.
- Europe experienced its coldest January since 2010, with an average temperature of 2.34 degrees Celsius, according to the service.
- Dr. Samantha Burgess noted that January 2026 showed that climate can bring cold weather to one region and extreme heat to another.
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January was the fifth-warmest month on record globally, says Copernicus Climate Change Service
Despite recent cold weather across much of the Northern Hemisphere, last month was the fifth-warmest January on record globally, according to the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service.
Europe sees coldest January since 2010 as world stays warm
January 2026 brought sharp weather contrasts across the world. Europe and Finland faced sustained cold while global temperatures ranked among the highest ever measured, according to data from the EU Copernicus Climate Change Service and Finnish Meteorological Institute. The global average surface temperature for the month reached 12.95 degrees Celsius. That level stood 0.51 degrees above the average for January during the 1991 to 2020 reference …
This January was the fifth warmest globally on record, despite a cold front that brought icy air to Europe and North America at the end of the month, according to data from the EU's Copernicus climate change monitoring service.
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