January was warmer than usual this year, with much of Europe recording higher than average temperatures to start 2022.
Warmer-than-average conditions occurred across Germany, eastern Europe, Scandinavia, the northern United Kingdom and Ireland, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).
Copernicus bases all reported findings on computer-generated analyses using billions of measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and weather stations worldwide.
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In Brussels, the Royal Meteorological Institute (RMI) reported an average temperature of 4.3 degrees Celsius in Uccle in January, compared to the typical 3.7 degrees.
However, not all of Europe recorded warmer temperatures: France, northeastern Spain, Greece and Turkey all reported cooler than average temperatures for the first month of the year.
Globally, January 2022 was 0.28° Celsius warmer than the 1991-2020 average. Above-average temperatures in Central Asia and Russia, along with a heatwave recorded in South America, countered the colder-than-average temperatures reported in Canada, North Africa and India.
