NOAA Confirms JMO Data; March 2015 Hottest Global March Ever; 7/11 Past Months Highs Or Ties
Global temperatures continued to climb last month, with combined land and sea-surface temperatures setting fresh records amid prospects of more to come as El Nino conditions form in the Pacific, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
Temperatures last month were 0.85 degrees above the 20th century average of 12.7 decrees, eclipsing the previous high in 2010 by 0.05 degrees, NOAA said. The figures complement similar readings from Japan.
Seven of the past 11 months have tied or set new record monthly temperatures, with March's departure from long-term averages behind only February 1998 and January 2007 in the 136 years of figures, the US agency said.
The first three months of 2015 also came in as the hottest on record, with global temperatures edging out the 2002 record by 0.05 degrees. Areas singled out for note include the waters off eastern Australia, which the Bureau of Meteorology this week noted were the warmest on record for March. So far this year, Australia's mean temperatures are ranked the third-warmest according to Bureau of Meteorology records going back to 1910.
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