The month just ended was the warmest March ever recorded. This was announced by the European weather service Copernicus.
The average global temperature last month was 14.4°C, 0.73°C higher than the average for the thirty-year period 1991 - 2020 and 0.10°C compared to the previous record in March, that of 2016. The Furthermore, the month was 1.68°C warmer than the March average for the fifty years 1850 - 1900, the reference period of the pre-industrial era. According to Copernicus, March 2024 is the tenth month in a row that has ranked as the warmest on record.
The average temperature of the last 12 months, from April 2023 to March 2024, is the highest ever recorded, 0.70°C above the 1991 - 2020 average and 1.68°C above the pre-industrial average. In the last 12 months, therefore, average global temperatures have exceeded the limit of 1.5°C from pre-industrial levels (the 1850-1900 average) set by the Paris Agreement of 2015 and the Glasgow COP26 of 2021.
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