PARIS: Earth had its second-warmest March on record, with Antarctic sea ice shrinking to its second-lowest extent, the European Union's climate monitoring agency said on Thursday.
'The month was jointly the second-warmest March globally,' tied with 2017, 2019 and 2020, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said in a report. The hottest March on record was in 2016.The report is based on computer-generated analyses using billions of measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and weather stations around the world.It said temperatures were above average over southern and central Europe and below average over most of northern Europe.
Copernicus said Antarctic sea ice extent was the second lowest for March in the 45-year satellite data record, at 28 percent below average.It reached 3.2 million square kilometers on average, 1.2 million sq km below the 1991–2020 average for the month.It had reached the smallest area on record in February for the second year in a row, continuing a decadelong decline.
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