Euronews.green reports that 2024's March was the hottest third month yet and climate experts at Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) warned that this is the tenth warmest month in a row. Global temperatures in March were 0.78 degrees Celsius warmer than the average recorded between 1991 and 2020, while compared to the previous hottest third month, recorded in 2016, this year's March was 0.10 degrees Celsius warmer.

Samantha Burgess, deputy director of Copernicus Climate Service (C3S), said that "March 2024 continues the sequence of climate records toppling for both air temperature and ocean surface temperatures."

"Stopping further warming requires rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions", she warned.

The situation is also reflected in the temperatures of our seas and oceans, which remained unusually high, despite the fact that the El Niño weather event weakened.

The average temperature of the sea surface for March was 21.07 degrees Celsius, the highest monthly value so far recorded this year.

In Europe, this year's March was the second hottest on record, as that title still goes to the year 2014, when the average temperature was 0.02 degrees Celsius warmer. Central and Eastern Europe especially recorded higher temperatures than those recorded between 1991 and 2020. At the same time, the continent experienced more rainfall than the average, especially France and the Iberian Peninsula.