March temperatures were "as much as 15 degrees F hotter than average" (link); 35 times more heat records were set than cold records. For the contiguous U.S., aka the "lower 48", this was the warmest March and the hottest January-March on record, according to the NOAA's National Climate Data Center State of the Climate Report; and the hottest 12 months on record, according to Weather Underground meteorologist Jeff Masters. (link)
"This is weird. This is not good." (link)
And it's with just 1.5 degrees F average warming over the past century; this century, if we don't change course, we expect five times more. (link)
(But this doesn't give us license to throw up our hands and walk away; "Pick any guideline you want, from 1C to 2C to who knows what, and in
whatever “important” time frame you prefer, but the inescapable bottom
line is that there is always a very high human cost to doing too little.
And the further we are from doing enough, ... we’re undeniably making the
situation, and thereby the price humanity will pay, much worse by our
inaction..." (link) )
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