NOAA reported this week that the latest temperature statistics on global average temperature for 2016 so far put this year far above measurements from previous years. In their global summary they also noted that March was the 11th consecutive month with a record high temperature for the Earth, reaching a value of 2.2 degrees F above the 20th century average. You can read their summary report at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/summary-info/global/201603.
As you might imagine, there has been a lot of commentary about this in the media. Here is a sampling.
Paul Huttner of Minnesota Public Radio: 2016 blows away global heat so far
Jeff Masters and Bob Henson, WunderBlog: Warmest March in global recordkeeping; 2016 roars ahead of pack
Jason Samenow, Capital Weather Gang: In March, earth’s temperature deviated more from normal than any previous month
Time magazine: This March was the hottest on record by a wide margin
