New Report: March 2015 Easily Set The Record For Hottest March Ever Recorded

This was easily the hottest March — and hottest January-to-March — on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA’s latest monthly report makes clear Mother Nature is just getting warmed up:

• March 2015 was not only the hottest March in their 135-year of keeping records, it beat “the previous record of 2010 by 0.09°F (0.05°C).”
• January-to-March was not only the hottest start to any year on record, it also beat “the previous record of 2002 by 0.09°F.”
• March was so warm that only two other months ever had a higher “departure from average” (i.e. temperature above the norm), February 1998 and January 2007, and they only beat March by “just 0.01°C (0.02°F).”
• Arctic sea ice hit its smallest March extent since records began in 1979.