For the eighth straight month in January, Earth was record hot, according to the European climate agency. For the first time, the global temperature pushed past the internationally agreed upon warming threshold for an entire 12-month period, with February 2023 to January 2024 running 2.74 degrees Fahrenheit (1.52 degrees Celsius) hotter than pre-industrial levels, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service of the European Space Agency.
the mild winter weather prompted many farms in the state's northern and central regions to begin tapping their trees in mid-January, up to two months early.