Here’s the State of the Climate National Overview March 2012 from the National Climatic Data Center. Click on the thumbnail graphic to the right for a U.S. map of temperature departures from average for March.
More coverage from the Summit County Citizens Voice (Bob Berwyn):
Every state in the country broke at least one record high during March, and 25 states east of the Rockies reported their all-time warmest March readings on record. For the contiguous 48 states as a whole, March was also the warmest on record, at 8.6 degrees above the breaking the old record (1910) by .5 degrees. The National Climatic Data Center reports that it was second-largest single-month departure from average temperatures, after January 2006. And despite a lingering La Niña, which often has a cooling influence, the first quarter of 2012 is also being reported as the warmest on record.