Climate: March 2012 shatters temperature records

Warmer-than-average March temps prevailed from the Eastern Seaboard across the country almost to the Pacific. GRAPHIC COURTESY NOAA.

Temps across lower 48 8.6 degrees above average

By Summit Voice

SUMMIT COUNTY — Every state in the country broke at least one record high during March, and 25 states east of the Rockies reported their all-time warmest March readings on record.

For the contiguous 48 states as a whole, March was also the warmest on record, at 8.6 degrees above the  breaking the old record (1910) by .5 degrees. (more…)

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