[toupeetape]

> Please let me know what the downvote is for

It's for not knowing what the word "globally" means. That is a pretty big hole in your own data.

Look at the equivalent data where it exists for South America, Europe, Africa or Asia. The majority have records set in the last 30 years.

Of course, none of the Northern hemisphere countries set their all-time record temperature in January so all-time records in the US are pretty irrelevant to the article.

[busymom0]

My point is that a 30 year period is meaningless when majority of records we see were broken much before that and the number of records being broken has gone down significantly as per NOAA data.

[toupeetape]

The number of records being broken has not gone down if you include parts of the world that are not the USA (they exist!)

The record was broken in 20 of the 50 countries in Europe in the last 10 years alone. Only 12 still have records standing from more than 30 years ago.

About half of records in Africa were broken in the last 20 years.

The majority of records in Asia and South America were broken in the last 20 years.

Anyway, this article is about temperatures in January, which means that all-time high temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere are irrelevant. Would it be meaningless if California hit 130°F in January just because it was once slightly hotter in July?