“Global Warming” Causes California to Have Its 5th Coldest March on Record

Californians who feel like March was one of the coldest and wettest they’ve endured have the data on their side.

Data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show that last month was the fifth-coldest March in California since 1895, the first year in the agency’s database. The average temperature across the state was 44.2 degrees, nearly 9 degrees lower than the average of 53.1 degrees from March 2022.

Last year’s March was the 11th warmest in the 129 years of record keeping.

Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, posted Monday on Twitter that “a few regions of Northern California just experienced their coldest March on record.”