WASHINGTON—For the 10th consecutive month, Earth in March set a new monthly record for global heat—with both air temperatures and the world’s oceans hitting an all-time high for the month, the European Union climate agency Copernicus said. March 2024 averaged 14.14 degrees Celsius (57.
A volunteer distributes drinking water next to a bus stand on a hot summer day in Hyderabad, India on March 21, 2024. Another month, another heat record for the planet. Earth just had its warmest March ever recorded, the 10th month in a row to set such a record, according to the European Union climate agency Copernicus.
Since last June, the globe has broken heat records each month, with marine heat waves across large areas of the globe’s oceans contributing. With El Nino waning, the margins by which global average temperatures are surpassed each month should go down, Francis said. Samantha Burgess, deputy director of Copernicus, said March’s record-breaking temperature wasn’t as exceptional as some other months in the past year that broke records by wider margins.
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