March the warmest on record over world land surfaces

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

Planet Earth continues to run a fever. Last month was the warmest March on record over land surfaces of the world and the second warmest overall worldwide. For the United States, however, it was just an average March, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Thursday.

NOAA's National Climatic Data Center said high temperatures over much of Asia pulled the worldwide land temperature up to an average of 40.8 degrees Fahrenheit (4.9 degrees Celsius), 3.2 degrees (1.8 C) warmer than the average in the 20th century.

While Asia had its greatest January snow cover this year, warm March readings caused a rapid melt and March snow cover on the continent was a record low.

Global ocean temperatures were the 13th warmest on record, with a weakening of the La Nina conditions that cool the tropical Pacific Ocean.

Overall land and sea surface temperatures for the world were second highest in 129 years of record keeping, trailing only 2002, the agency said.

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[Systematic Chaos]

1. K&R for the only shit that matters.

:kick:

[Anywho6]

2. The Central Valley of CA has gone without rain...

...since February. This March was the driest March on record. October-April are typically our rainy months and it seldom rains May-September, so this means we're potentially looking at over seven months without rain. Not good.

[bean fidhleir]

3. k&R

[Demeter]

4. Not In Michigan, It Wasn't

I kept looking around for glaciers forming. And wore long johns most of March, which is ridiculous.

[Shae]

5. At the Correspondents' dinner

Dick Cheney, always a barrel of laughs said, "I have no doubt, none at all, that we are in the midst of a global warming, or as I prefer to call it, spring."

Yuck it up, Darth Vader.

[AnneD]

6. I think March.....

Was our coolest on record. While it was nice-it wasn't our usual and that concerns me.

[paparush]

7. K&R

[lovuian]

8. Global Warming proof more and you may not agree its

CO2 but it isn't helping thats a fact