Significantly, for the second month in a row, SST was down, after a few months of rise. But land temperatures were generally higher. The big contributors to this were N America and the Arctic. Almost everywhere was warm, including Europe and Australia. A cool patch in mid-Siberia/Mongolia.
Here (from here) is the plot of relative contributions to the rise (ie components weighted by area):
![](https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/www.moyhu.org/2019/01/break0.png)
Here is the temperature map. As always, there is a more detailed active sphere map here.
![](https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/www.moyhu.org/2019/01/map.png)