Unprecedented March Heat, El Niño Forecast

0:00It's April 8th. Global news today starts now, AI-powered and worldwide. I'm Cory with the story. March hit the continental United States like a heat wave from the future, clocking in as the hottest march on record and the most abnormally warm month in 132 years of data. The average temperature came in at about 51 degrees Fahrenheit, a whopping 9.4 degrees above the 20th century normal, smashing. The previous record from 2012. The heat didn't come alone. Six of the top 10 hottest months ever have happened in the last 10 years. In this past February, ranked 10th on that. List 2. Over 19,000 daily heat records got broken nationwide, plus more than 2,000 places set all-time march highs, way more than entire, decades passed. Experts are calling an unprecedented, especially since it followed the hottest winter and driest start to the year on record. That combo of scorching temps and low moisture is stressing water supplies, farms, rivers,

1:02and shipping routes across the lower 48. Now forecast from NOAA and European services point to a super strong El Niño brewing in the Pacific, potentially peaking well over 2 degrees, Celsius warmer than normal by winter. These events released stored ocean heat into the air, cranking up global temps with the lag, and could rival the monsters from 2015 and 20. With climate change possibly fueling stronger El Niños, we're staring down new record warmth into 2027, shifted weather patterns for. Years and tweaks to hurricane zones that might ease some droughts but amp up others, stay cool out there while we watch this unfold.