January 2015 ranked the second warmest on record, according to data from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration.
NOAA said on Thursday that land and ocean surfaces for January 2015 were the hottest for the month since record keeping began 135 years ago.
{mosads}January 2007 still tops the charts for the warmest ever recorded.
This year, land and ocean surfaces were 1.39 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average.
Temperatures for January didn’t stray far from those in 2014.
Last year came in as the hottest year ever recorded since 1880.
“This is the latest in a series of warm years, in a series of warm decades. While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long-term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases,” Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies, said last month.