Last Month Was Hottest March On Record For Northeast Ohio
March was 13 degrees warmer than the average and featured a string of 10 consecutive days over 70 F
It might be cruel to remind everyone of how sunny it was last month -- considering it snowed in parts of Northeast Ohio overnight -- but it wasn't just warm in March; it was historically hot. March 2012 was the hottest March on record for Northeast Ohio, according to the National Weather Service. The average temperature was 51.4 F, Meteorologist Karen Clark said. "That's 13 degrees above the average, which is pretty extraordinary," she said. The previous record was an average of 49.5 F, which was set in 1946. The month also included an uninterrupted streak of 10 days that were 70 F or warmer. This too was a record for March in Ohio. Before that, the longest streak was seven days, which was set in 1945. Ohio's unseasonable warmth was the …
Lisa Rainsong
1:10 pm on Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Many plants, insects, and amphibians responded 4 weeks early - and they'd already been gradually responding earlier to the warming climate. I'm afraid last month's temperatures won't be so extraordinary in the future. We also had record-breaking precipitation last year - 2 feet above average. "Climate change" is too mild of a term when we look at what's happening around the world. The more recent… more ›