March will probably mark Earth’s 10th straight record-setting month.
Temperatures were well above normal across most of Eastern Europe over the weekend, leading to national records in many countries. . Multiple locations around the world observed unprecedented heat on the month’s final weekend, as if to put an exclamation mark on this exceptional run of warmth.
The weekend heat was most widespread in Europe, where many countries set national high temperature records for March. But it was also unusually warm in Asia, parts of Central America and West Africa. Human-caused climate change from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas is fueling this warmth, with an assist from the El Niño climate pattern.It felt more like summer than early spring in Eastern Europe over the weekend, with temperatures soaring into the 70s and 80s, about 20 to 35 degrees above normal.Croatia: 84.2 degrees in Osijek.Lithuania: 77.9 degrees in Druskininkai.
To the east, all of Japan bathed in midsummer temperatures to end March, returning to conditions that delivered one of the country’s warmest winters on record.On the 31st, the temperature reached 82.6 degrees in Tokyo, which beat the previous monthly record by around 5 degrees in Numerous other cities on the main island of Honshu set March high temperature records on Sunday, including Fuji, Nakamura, Narita, Tsukuba and Yokohama. Records were set across most of the length of that island.Advertisementthat 2024 will be the warmest year on record, surpassing 2023, and a 99.9 percent chance that it will rank among the top five warmest years. To date,
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