The calendar may have turned to 2016, but temperatures are picking up where 2015 left off. According to data released this week by NASA, this January was the warmest January on record by a large margin while also claiming the title of most anomalously warm month in 135 years of record keeping. The month was 1.13°C — or just a smidge more than 2°F — above normal. That tops December’s record of being 1.11°C — or just a smidge below 2°F — above average. http://www.climatecentral.org/news/january-global-temperature-record-20035 NASA data: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
