jan 2024: new record +1.3C: Berkeley Earth

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Berkeley has just updated its land+ocean dataset to the end of Jan
2024. It finds Jan was almost 1.3C warmer than the baseline (~1965
avgs) just edging out Jan 2016 at +1.25C.

The top10 warmest Jans since 1850 according to Berkeley (using air
temps in regions where there is seaice) are now:

year Jan anom
2024 1.299 <-- new record
2016 1.247
2020 1.199
2017 1.085
2007 0.989
2019 0.952
2022 0.945
2023 0.924
2021 0.891
2018 0.869

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