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.

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