Earth has its 4th warmest March on Record:weekend severe weather outbreak coming

March 2014 was the globe's 4th warmest March since records began in 1880, according to NOAA'sNational Climatic Data Center (NCDC) and NASA. March 2014 global land temperatures were the 5th warmest on record, and global ocean temperatures were also the 5th warmest on record. The year-to-date January - March period has been the 7th warmest on record for the globe. Global satellite-measured temperatures in March 2013 for the lowest 8 km of the atmosphere were 11th or 9th warmest in the 36-year record, according to Remote Sensing Systems and the University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH), respectively. Northern Hemisphere snow cover during March was the 6th lowest in the 48-year record. Wunderground's weather historian, Christopher C. Burt, has a comprehensive post on the notable weather events of March 2014 in his March 2014 Global Weather Extremes Summary.
 Figure 1. Departure of temperature from average for March 2014, the 4th warmest March for the globe since record keeping began in 1880. Much of Europe had a top-five warmest March, including Austria (2nd), Norway (3rd), Denmark (4th), Germany (3rd), Latvia (3rd), the Netherlands (3rd), and Slovakia (1st.) In the U.S., Vermont had its coldest March on record, and Michigan, New York, Maine, and New Hampshire all had top-five coldest Marches on record. Image credit: National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) .
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