Brussels, Feb. 6 -- January 2025 was the warmest on record globally, with the average surface temperature 0.79 degrees Celsius above the 1991-2000 January average, the EU-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reported on Thursday.

Its temperature was 1.75 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, while the average temperature over European land rose 2.51 degrees above the 1991-2000 January average.

"Outside Europe, temperatures were most above average over northeast and northwest Canada, Alaska and Siberia. They were also above average over southern South America, Africa and much of Australia and Antarctica," it said in a report.

The average sea surface temperature between 60 degrees north and 60 degrees south reached 20.78...