March: 2nd Warmest Ever

“March 2008 was the 2nd warmest March for the the globe on record, according to statistics released by the National Climatic Data Center. Over the Northern Hemisphere, and over all of the globe’s land areas, March 2008 was the warmest March in the 128-year global record. Only the presence of a moderately strong La Niña event that cooled ocean waters in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific prevented March 2008 from surpassing March 2002 as the warmest March on record.”

Jeff Masters

p.s. “Between February 2006 and November 2007, the globe set top ten monthly warm temperature records for 22 straight months.”