The heat goes on: Earth sets 9th straight monthly record

Get a load of this.

The January figures are in, and Earth's string of hottest-months-on-record has now reached nine in a row. But NASA said January stood out: The temperature was above normal by the highest margin of any month on record.

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I'll keep watching this.

Most of January was unusually warm where I live, that's for sure! We had more than a week of Spring-like weather.

I know global warming is considered bad overall because of the other nasty effects but it was nice having a relatively mild first half of Winter this year.

Just something to add here:

We had almost summer-like weather here on Saturday and back in Cincinnati it WAS summer-like weather at 75 degrees Fahrenheit! This was very unusual for February. I actually sat outside part of the day.

Global warming, although this is technically weather and not overall climate change. We will, if the predictions are correct, see an overall increase in warmer winters but sometimes this will cause colder winters as increased heat in the Pacific ocean displaces Arctic air southward into North America.

Here in California, however, we're largely immune to this modified weather pattern.