what is the heat month?
For 11th straight month, the globe was record warm. SHARE. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, March set another heat record for the globe. As Earth continues to warm and is influenced by phenomena such as El NiÃ±o, global temperature records are piling up. For 2016 year to date (January-March), the average temperature for the globe was 2.07 degrees F above the 20th-century average, according to scientists from NOAAâs National Centers for Environmental Information.