March was the warmest March on record and the tenth straight temperature record-breaking month, according to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service.The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said Tuesday that at 1.68 degrees Celsius hotter than the"pre-industrial" era, March was the warmest March on record and the tenth straight temperature record-breaking month.
The average global temperature for the same 12-month period also came in at the highest on record, at 0.70 degrees Celsius above the average for 1991-2020. The Jamtalferner glacier near the Austrian-Swiss border is melting at an unprecedented rate and scientists are there studying how global warming plays a role.
Copernicus said the El Nino sea warming effects continued to weaken in the eastern equatorial Pacific, but generally, marine air temperatures were holding steady at an unusually high level averaging 21.07 degrees Celsius between latitude 60 degrees south and 60 degrees north.