{"id":71268,"date":"2026-04-09T10:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/us-had-hottest-march-on-record-as-nation-faced-unprecedented-heat\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:58:15","slug":"us-had-hottest-march-on-record-as-nation-faced-unprecedented-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/us-had-hottest-march-on-record-as-nation-faced-unprecedented-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"US had hottest March on record as nation faced \u2018unprecedented\u2019 heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The continental US registered its most abnormally hot month in 132 years of records, according to Noaa data <\/p>\n<p>March\u2019s persistent unseasonable heat was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/19\/march-heatwave-weather-us\">so intense<\/a> that the continental United States registered its most abnormally hot month in 132 years of records, according to federal weather data. And the next year or so looks to turn the dial up on global warmth even more, as some forecasts predict a brewing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/elnino\">El Ni\u00f1o<\/a> will reach super strength.<\/p>\n<p>Not only was it the hottest March on record for the US but the amount it was above normal beat any other month in history for the lower 48 states. March\u2019s average temperature of 50.85F(10.47C) was 9.35F (5.19C) above the 20th-century normal for March.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/09\/hottest-march-on-record\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The continental US registered its most abnormally hot month in 132 years of records, according to Noaa data March\u2019s persistent unseasonable heat was so intense that the continental United States registered its most abnormally hot month in 132 years of records, according to federal weather data. And the next year or so looks to turn &#8230; <a title=\"US had hottest March on record as nation faced \u2018unprecedented\u2019 heat\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/us-had-hottest-march-on-record-as-nation-faced-unprecedented-heat\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US had hottest March on record as nation faced \u2018unprecedented\u2019 heat\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}