This March was the warmest it’s ever been in the continental U.S.
Here is a day-by-day animation of the daily temperature records tied or broken in March 2012. Over 15,000 records were broken.
Track new maximum high temperature records from official government recording stations:
incredibly cool map - er, video — er, map showing the spreading debris field after last year’s tsunami in Japan. It looks like, well, a sea dragon!