{"id":34177,"date":"2017-04-26T12:33:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T12:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/march-2017-continues-global-warming-trend\/"},"modified":"2017-04-26T12:33:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T12:33:53","slug":"march-2017-continues-global-warming-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/march-2017-continues-global-warming-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2017 continues global warming trend"},"content":{"rendered":"

{It was the second warmest March – after March 2016 – in a database which goes as far back as 1880.}<\/p>\n

It was confirmed this week by NOAA\u2019s National Center for Environmental Information (NCEI) that March 2017 was the second warmest March, globally, on record. The only warmer March in a database stretching over more than 1,620 months, was March 2016. The second place ranking was also confirmed by NASA.<\/p>\n

In addition, March was the fourth warmest month \u2013 any month \u2013 in that database, coming behind February, March and January of 2016 and just ahead of February 2017.<\/p>\n

Once again, the degree of warming is quite alarming. March was a massive 1.12 degrees Celsius above the long-term average. With January and February of 2017 amongst the warmest months ever recorded, there is an outside chance that 2017 could challenge 2016 as the warmest year on record.<\/p>\n

This remains unlikely at this stage as we only came out of an El Nino, which tends to enhance global warming, earlier in 2016.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, a localised warming of surface waters in the eastern Pacific, which has resulted in heavy rain, flooding and landslides in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, has been ongoing for several months.<\/p>\n

It is certainly possible that another El Nino could develop later this year, despite such events usually occurring only every two to seven years. Such a development would certainly raise the possibility of 2017 challenging 2016 as the warmest year on record.<\/p>\n

The record temperatures of March applied equally to land and sea. As a result, sea ice extent in both the Arctic and Antarctic was at record low levels.<\/p>\n

It was confirmed this week by NOAA\u2019s National Center for Environmental Information (NCEI) that March 2017 was the second warmest March, globally, on record. The only warmer March in a database stretching over more than 1,620 months, was March 2016. The second place ranking was also confirmed by NASA.<\/p>\n

In addition, March was the fourth warmest month \u2013 any month \u2013 in that database, coming behind February, March and January of 2016 and just ahead of February 2017.<\/p>\n

Once again, the degree of warming is quite alarming. March was a massive 1.12 degrees Celsius above the long-term average. With January and February of 2017 amongst the warmest months ever recorded, there is an outside chance that 2017 could challenge 2016 as the warmest year on record.<\/p>\n

This remains unlikely at this stage as we only came out of an El Nino, which tends to enhance global warming, earlier in 2016.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, a localised warming of surface waters in the eastern Pacific, which has resulted in heavy rain, flooding and landslides in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, has been ongoing for several months.<\/p>\n

It is certainly possible that another El Nino could develop later this year, despite such events usually occurring only every two to seven years. Such a development would certainly raise the possibility of 2017 challenging 2016 as the warmest year on record.<\/p>\n

The record temperatures of March applied equally to land and sea. As a result, sea ice extent in both the Arctic and Antarctic was at record low levels.<\/p>\n

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Source:Al Jazeera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{It was the second warmest March – after March 2016 – in a database which goes as far back as 1880.} It was confirmed this week by NOAA\u2019s National Center for Environmental Information (NCEI) that March 2017 was the second warmest March, globally, on record. The only warmer March in a database stretching over more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[101],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-34177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-internationl","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34177"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=34177"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=34177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}