March was the warmest month ever, Globaly.

[Cetacea]

On a related note, spring-like conditions are coming to the eastern states two weeks earlier than the was the norm twenty years ago.
Record-breaking pollen counts are being attributed to climate-change.

Now, I dare any of you to post one of those "this is normal for my area this time of year". Go ahead. Make my day.

edit: interestingly enough, many news reports are misreporting that it was the warmest March in several decades....
Here is the NOAA link: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100415_marchstats.html

[lunatica]

1. I'm no expert but I think the Bay Area has been much colder than normal

And for a year or two also. Last year there were very few hot days. Inland was still hot, but the Bay Area seemed to be mostly a little on the cool side during the Summer.

[Cetacea]

2. Canada had record warms, the south had record cold.

It appears that most of the warm weather occurred in the typically cold areas of the world. Strange.

[Richardo]

3. You mean the warmest March ever?

[Cetacea]

5. Yes. Globaly.

I fixed my subject line. Sorry if my wording was confusing!

[Vinca]

4. Just yesteray my husband mentioned he'd never seen the leaves

come out so soon and we're already past forsythias and on to azaleas. I'm going to regret not getting my garden started early.

[Cetacea]

6. It's way to early in NY to be scraping green spores off cars

I don''t think many thought that intense allergies/pollen counts were going to figure in contributing to climate change awareness.

[DainBramaged]

7. Same here earilest I can ever remember....

[rurallib]

8. Maybe the earliest in Iowa.If not, darned close.

Trees are leafed out nearly 3 weeks earlier than normal. And damn it has been hot - 25+ over normal for the past week.

[marmar]

10. True....Green was sprouting everywhere in southeast Michigan around Easter....

......This is usually more of a late April event.

[Jim__]

9. The warmest March on record - that's since 1880.

Just to be clear:

The world’s combined global land and ocean surface temperature made last month the warmest March on record, according to NOAA. Taken separately, average ocean temperatures were the warmest for any March and the global land surface was the fourth warmest for any March on record. Additionally, the planet has seen the fourth warmest January – March period on record.

[Cetacea]

11. Correct. Thanks.

[Cetacea]

12. lol