newshour:

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. 

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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!