This display shows the Sims Climate Digest for January 2015, featuring highlights from the Global Analysis product issued each month by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center. The climate digest conveys a visual interpretation of recent weather and climate conditions worldwide. For the month of January 2015, the combined average global land in ocean temperature was the second warmest January on record just behind 2007. Let's start in Australia, where precipitation totals were 134 percent above the monthly average. The Northern Territory, for example, experienced their sixth-wettest January in the 116-year period of record. Also breaking records, China had their warmest January since national records began in 1961. Over in Norway, the average monthly temperature was 2.6 degrees Celsius or 4.7 degrees Fahrenheit above the 1961 to 1990 average. In some eastern locations of the country, departures from average temperatures were 5-7 degrees Celsius or 9-11 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the average. Moving on, Argentina had above average precipitation in northern parts of the country. In some locations of the region, nearly double the monthly average precipitation totals were received. In the US, drought conditions worsened across the West and Midwest. The state of California experienced its fourth driest January on record, and several cities in northern California had record lows in precipitation. This real-time dataset shows sea surface temperature anomalies, measured by NOAA satellites. Blue colors indicate cooler than normal ocean temperatures, and red indicates warmer than normal ocean temperatures. This real-time dataset, collected by microwave sensors on NOAA satellites, shows snow and ice cover updated daily. Watch the progression of days and note the retreat and expansion of snowfall. The January sea ice extent for the Arctic was 6.3% below the 1981 to 2010 average, which is the third smallest January sea ice extent since satellite records began in 1979. Finally, we'll move on to the sea ice extent for the Antarctic, where January 2015 was 44.6% above the 1981 to 2010 average. This makes it the largest sea ice extent on record for the month of January. And that is your January 2015 climate digest. For more information, please visit the website shown at the end of this video.