Publication Date February 21, 2018 | Weather Underground | Category 6

January 2018: Earth's 5th Warmest January on Record

A Boston firefighter wades through flood waters from Boston Harbor on Long Wharf on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018, after Winter Storm Grayson’s storm surge brought the highest coastal water levels ever recorded in Boston. Photo: Michael Dwyer, AP
A Boston firefighter wades through flood waters from Boston Harbor on Long Wharf on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018, after Winter Storm Grayson’s storm surge brought the highest coastal water levels ever recorded in Boston. Photo: Michael Dwyer, AP

January 2018 was the planet's fifth warmest January since record keeping began in 1880, said NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) on Tuesday. NASA also rated January 2018 as the fifth warmest January on record, with the only warmer Januarys being 2016, 2017, 2007 and 2015. Global ocean temperatures during January 2018 were the fifth warmest on record, and global land temperatures were the eighth warmest on record. Global satellite-measured temperatures in January 2018 for the lowest 8 km of the atmosphere were the tenth warmest in the 40-year record, according to the University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH) and RSS.