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Global temperatures leap higher in January, smashing records – ‘This January is a whopping 1.1 degrees warmer than the average January’  http://bit.ly/1QpgZ5E   

This year has got off to a scorching start, with global temperatures marching to new highs as a giant El Niño rode on the back of creeping climate change, data from Japan and the US show.

Just a month after the world notched its hottest year on record, January's  global land and sea-surface temperatures were 0.52 degrees above the average for 1981-2010, Japan's Meteorological Agency reported.

The departure from the norm easily eclipsed the previous record of 0.29 degrees shared equally by 2002, 2007 and 2015, the agency said.

Temperatures in January are rising at the rate of about 0.75 degrees per century, the agency said.

While more data will be released in coming days by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a chart from fellow US agency NASA (see below) also shows January's temperature spiking higher.


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