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March mildness helps rewrite temperature records

“When you look at what’s happened in March this year, it’s beyond unbelievable,” said University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver in British Columbia.

NOAA climate scientist Gabriel Vecchi likened the increase in weather extremes to baseball players on steroids: You can’t say an individual homer is because of steroids, but they are hit more often and the long-held records for home runs fall.

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