The latest monthly summary for January 2024 was released by NOAA on February 8. It shows that the country as a whole was the 10th wettest on record, with extraordinary rain and flooding in parts of the South, especially Texas and Louisiana. Because of the rain, drought conditions improved across a lot of the US with the exception of the Northern Plains. The temperature was ranked in the middle third of the 130-year record. However, a total of 1,125 U.S. counties broke nearly 2,500 daily minimum temperature records from January 14-18 during an Arctic outbreak. You can read the news release at https://www.noaa.gov/news/nation-just-saw-its-10th-wettest-january-on-record and read more details at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-202401.
