January was the warmest – hottest – January on record, measured by global temperatures. One of the few exceptions was the eastern U.S. We’re having a great winter in the Northeast with cold for ice skating and now a decent amount of snow.
We’re having a great winter – not so much for the rest of the globe
"Surface air temperature anomaly for January 2025 relative to the January average for the period 1991-2020. Data source: ERA5. Credit: C3S/ECMWF."
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As long as that blue cold
smudge hovers over the US, especially Washington DC, nothing is going to change. Even a rare normal winter resets everyone’s sense that climate is still normal. No one is talking about climate. Here we go.