January 2024 is expected to be around 0.6°C warmer than normal seasonal temperatures. January marks a series of 24 consecutive months without falling below seasonal norms.

Météo-France does not make the link between this specific wave of mildness and climate change. However, climatologists have established that cold waves are fewer and less severe in our warming climate.. Heat waves are more frequent and more severe, but also earlier and later, according to climate change experts. experts.