Climate Change - Global Temperatures for March 2016
The global average temperature for March 2016 was 13.92°C, according to the US National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration.
This is the highest March average temperature in the 1880–2016 record, at 1.22°C above the 20th century average of 12.7°C .
This marks the highest monthly temperature departure among all 1,635 months on record, beating the previous all-time record set just last month by 0.01°C.
Overall, the nine highest monthly temperature departures in the record have all occurred in the past nine months.
March 2016 also marks the 11thconsecutive month a monthly global temperature record has been broken, the longest such streak in NOAA's 137 years of record keeping.
This is the highest March average temperature in the 1880–2016 record, at 1.22°C above the 20th century average of 12.7°C .
This marks the highest monthly temperature departure among all 1,635 months on record, beating the previous all-time record set just last month by 0.01°C.
Overall, the nine highest monthly temperature departures in the record have all occurred in the past nine months.
March 2016 also marks the 11thconsecutive month a monthly global temperature record has been broken, the longest such streak in NOAA's 137 years of record keeping.