“It is the eighth month in a row that is the warmest on record for the respective time of the year.”
Copernicus puts the 12 months to January 2024 at 1.52°C above the 1850-1900 level. That is past the 1.5°C line the Paris Agreement was supposed to hold. The WMO rushes to explain that Paris counts long-term warming, not a single year over the line. Eight straight record months, and the official response is a footnote about averaging periods.