The main purpose of this ongoing blog will be to track planetary extreme, or record temperatures related to climate change. Any reports I see of ETs will be listed below the main topic of the day. I’ll refer to extreme or record temperatures as ETs (not extraterrestrials).😉
Main Topic: Burst of Record Warmth Occurring Across U.S. at End of March
Dear Diary. Ominously a relatively dry weather pattern has set in across the southern U.S. while ridging aloft, aided by climate change, is heating land areas such that record warmth will be had by many at the end of March.
EXCEPTIONAL HEAT WAVE IN THE WEST A new heat wave just started with 100F at Indio in California and this is just the beginning. Much hotter next 2 days with historic March records at stake for several stations and also for all the West. We might see 104F/40C. pic.twitter.com/f3Zjw0UAdH
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) March 25, 2025
We can see that effect today on a climate Reanalyzer chart:
At 500 millibars the peak of this warm pattern will occur today and Wednesday over the West and South:
Could Pheonix Arizona have its earliest 100°F reading on record today? That’s possible the next couple of days since the earliest such reading was on 3/26/1988.
I’ll be listing western records right below this post late tonight.
Most disturbing is that dry warm weather has aided in the development of wildfires across the Carolinas and other areas across the U.S. An older story on that is linked here:
The Drought Monitor depicts pockets of dry areas which are becoming more widespread this spring:
It’s interesting that the ridge aloft is collocated across the Southwest over the driest area of the country. Drought feeds record heat and vice a versa.
Though no too seasons are the same, this one reminds me of Spring/Summer 2012 when early season record heat led to a spate of all-time record summer heat across most of the country, including my hometown of Atlanta, Georgia at 106°F. Due to global warming, we are due for another such year. Both 2012 and 2025 have La Nina patterns in the equatorial Pacific, but the one in 2012 was much colder.
Going into April above average conditions will continue for the nation’s southern half:
That ridge will only get stronger going into April:
As stated, I’ve now added record reports from Tuesday 3/25/2025 in the space below (12 AM EDT update):
#SGX issues Record Event Report (RER) at Mar 25, 5:40 PM PDT …HIGHEST MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE RECORDS BROKEN OR TIED ON MAR 25 2025 … https://t.co/hEbqZOZZXb
We may not have reached 100 degrees at Sky Harbor today, but we still managed 99, which is a new daily record for this date (previous was 96 in 2022). It looks like the record for earliest instance of triple digit temperatures (3/26/88) will live on for another year. #azwxpic.twitter.com/Hrbr6yHRG0
#SHV issues Record Event Report (RER) at Mar 25, 7:15 PM CDT …DAILY RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES TIED OR BROKEN ON MARCH 25TH AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS… https://t.co/4knQRuVMWJ
#HGX issues Record Event Report (RER) at Mar 25, 4:38 PM CDT …PRELIMINARY RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT HOUSTON/HOBBY AIRPORT… https://t.co/m8mgKL2KLp
#STO issues Record Event Report (RER) at Mar 25, 5:56 PM PDT …RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT SACRAMENTO CITY AND TIED AT STOCKTON AIRPORT CA… https://t.co/ZC1SG552qC
#LOX issues Record Event Report (RER) at Mar 25, 6:39 PM PST … PRELIMINARY HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORD SET ACROSS SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA TODAY (MARCH 25)… https://t.co/s41jvQeIGb
#PQR issues Record Event Report (RER) at Mar 25, 7:29 PM PDT …PRELIMINARY RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES SET ON TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2025… https://t.co/BkF7RoEEZ5
#FGZ issues Record Event Report (RER) at Mar 25, 6:15 PM MST …RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES ACROSS NORTHERN ARIZONA ON TUESDAY MARCH 25TH… https://t.co/JWPpzwYtGa
#BYZ issues Record Event Report (RER) at Mar 25, 4:40 PM MDT …RECORD WARM LOW TEMPERATURES SET AT BILLINGS AND LIVINGSTON ON MONDAY MARCH 24TH… https://t.co/OMDkKvSl13
Here are more “ETs” recorded from around the planet the last couple of days, their consequences, and some extreme temperature outlooks, as well as any extreme precipitation reports:
HISTORIC HEAT IN LIBYA On March 23rd,insanely hot night in the capital Tripoli Essbea, South Tripoli had a crazy minimum temperature of 27.3C HOTTEST MARCH NIGHT IN LIBYA HISTORY
More records followed: Max 39.0 Ghat Tmin 24.8C El Khoms
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) March 25, 2025
A DAY FOR HISTORY :41 DEGREES IN CHINA
40.9C at Badu in CHINA 209 stations broke their records of hottest March day in history (hundreds more of hottest night) with tomorrow expected to be much hotter. Thousands of records coming allover SE Asia. https://t.co/TPu0fqZS70
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) March 25, 2025
ABSOLUTE INSANITY IN CHINA Up to 39C
March Provincial records in Hubei,Jiangsu,Shanghai
>100 main stations broke their records including 31.1C Shanghai
24 provinces >30C,5 provinces >35C
This is an absolute insanity and tomorrow will be worse World climatic history rewritten pic.twitter.com/F7cW0HAoLo
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) March 25, 2025
UNBELIEVABLE KOREAN HOTTEST MARCH DAY IN HISTORY AGAIN
28.8 Jeju NATIONAL RECORD Records smashed allover the country beaten and rebeaten continuosly 28.5 Gumi 27.1 Pohang 26.6 Andong 26.0 Seongsan 26.0 Chupungnyong 25.8 Chungju
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) March 25, 2025
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN JAPAN-HISTORIC Dozens of March records pulverized with temperatures up to 29C and will keep rising all week ! Japan climatic history rewritten. Records include Hiroshima,Fukuoka,Hikone,Maizuru,Toyooka,Okayama,Otake,Takamatsu,Hagi,Yamaguchi,Shimonoseki…👇 pic.twitter.com/6jKGC74xp4
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) March 25, 2025
CARIBBEAN RECORD HEAT
Endless record heat allover the Caribbean The records set during the 2023/2024 Nino are being wiped out one after another
MARCH HOTTEST NIGHT IN HISTORY Tmin 27.5 San Andres Island, Colombia Tmin 26.3 Charlestown, Nevis Island (St Kitts & Nevis) pic.twitter.com/NYsH1MQLRT
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) March 24, 2025
Here is More Climate News from Tuesday:
(As usual, this will be a fluid post in which more information gets added during the day as it crosses my radar, crediting all who have put it on-line. Items will be archived on this site for posterity. In most instances click on the pictures of each tweet to see each article. The most noteworthy items will be listed first.)
While a single year above 1.5°C of warming does not indicate that the long-term temperature goals of the Paris Agreement are out of reach, it is a wake-up call. Celeste Saulo #auspol #climate
The first-known #pyroCb in South Korea happened this morning (UTC) on a large fire near Uiseong. PyroCb are wildfire driven thunderstorms that can act like chimneys and transport smoke into the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere. H/T to the pyroCb community/email thread for catching this!
Complicated is right. I'll keep talking to anyone who will listen. Mining Greenland isn't the best idea.❄️💙📚#scicomm#climate#UVMresearch#science🧪 🌎 🔬 ⚒️#geosky#ClimateHealth#ClimateActiontime.com/7271481/clim…
Glad to see this backfire. We have NO BUSINESS taking over Greenland. I'll keep writing opinion pieces until this insanity is put to bed for good!Read published essays of mine about Greenland here: www.paulbierman.net/essays❄️💙📚#scicomm#climate#UVMresearch#science🧪 🌎 🔬 ⚒️#ClimateAction
With all noise out of DC, it's easy to forget that Greenland's ice sheet is fragile. It's melted away before raising sea level 6 m (20+ ft). Free read – fossil evidence from under the ice.❄️💙📚#scicomm#climate#UVMresearch#science🧪 🌎 ⚒️#ClimateHealth#ClimateActionwww.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/…
A court ordered Greenpeace to pay a pipeline company $660M. What happens next?Experts called the verdict “beyond punitive.” The organization plans to appeal and has already filed a countersuit in Europe.grist.org/indigenous/a…#GreenPeace #Environment #Climate #Europe
Can cities ban natural gas in new buildings? A federal judge just said yes.After a string of discouraging rulings for other cities, a court upheld NYC's efforts to decarbonize its buildings.grist.org/buildings/na…#Gas #Buildings #Judges #NYC #Climate
Plants Reveal New Details of 10C Temperature Increase in “The Big Daddy”Global Mass Extinction Event 252 Million Years Agoyoutu.be/-4IWcApbhhU?… #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #climate #climateawareness #climateawareness #flora #plants #fossils
#ProudBlue #BlueEarthWay to go Colorado! 👏👏👏Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said his administration remains committed to cutting emissions and expanding renewable energy, despite the federal government’s about face on climate.We need all blue states to followinsideclimatenews.org/news/2203202…
Join and Listen in on EcoMadres’ new episode of EcoMadres Investigates this Wednesday, March 26, at 2 p.m. EST. The conversation cover the impact of misinformation and media framing on public perception of climate change and why these issues disproportionately affect Latino… pic.twitter.com/i3EPpuFz3X
I'm so proud of my mum for standing up for the environment & exercising her right to peaceful protest (as outlined in the Int'l Covenant on Civil and Political Rights- to which Aus is a signatory). Thank you mama, the Bob Brown Foundation & all who took part in today's action.💛#auspol #climate
Trump Announces Replacement for Costly NOAA forecasting centersThe stable genius demonstrates how his brilliant invention, the Sharpier Image forecasting system could cut fraud and waste by driving costly "smarty pants scientists" out of government forever.🧪 #climate #noaa
Today’s News on Sustainable Energy, Traditional Polluting Energy from Fossil Fuel, and the Green Revolution:
Researchers have set a new efficiency world record for converting sunlight into electricity using transparent solar cells.The breakthrough is a huge boost for renewable energy, allowing entire skyscrapers to serve as power stations by transforming their windows into solar panels.
My main takeaway from the new IEA report: Clean energy is accelerating like crazy, but it's still not enough to actually reduce climate pollution. Emissions are still rising as energy demand rises, including for coal, oil, and gas. It's not enough to add clean. We also have to subtract dirty.
“The study found that switching to renewable energy could reduce energy demand by 54.4% and energy costs by 59.6%. More importantly, it could lower social costs, including in health care and environmental damages, by nearly 91.8%.”#OOTT #FAFO #fasttransitionwww.thecooldown.com/green-busine…
Australia has the potential to be a giant in renewable energy and space technology. Policy inconsistencies, insufficient investment and reliance on traditional energy sources has impeded its progress. @commiepommie #auspol
The EPA wants to roll back a rule that’s essential for protecting you from chemical disasters. grist.org/regulation/e… #EPA #Health #Pollution #Environment #Climate
Brilliant original journalism from BBC. How drivers in UK are inadvertently poisoning villagers in India. It’s a must-listen, and should change Gvt policy. Thanks to brilliant @meisel_anna and @CarlJohnston2 listen @BBCSounds https://t.co/dmH5LwsbYp
Scientists harness antibodies linked with lupus to turn autoimmune responses against tumor cells in mice, a new biosensor research tool empowers the direct study of G protein-coupled receptors, and more. https://t.co/0UBOrq6ASKpic.twitter.com/dQV5SW5eD6
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