One Hundred and Eight Degrees in March Was Not Supposed to Happen
The US broke its all-time March heat record at 110F in Arizona, scientists called it 'virtually impossible' without climate change, and El Nino is returning to make it worse.
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The US broke its all-time March heat record at 110F in Arizona, scientists called it 'virtually impossible' without climate change, and El Nino is returning to make it worse.
Four astronauts, a 322-foot rocket, and 54 years of waiting — Artemis II is on Launch Pad 39B and the Moon is ten days away.
NOAA gives El Nino a 62 percent chance of emerging by summer — and some models suggest it could intensify into a super event by winter, layered on top of a planet already running record temperatures.
JWST revealed that exoplanet L 98-59 d has a permanent magma ocean that has persisted for five billion years, storing sulfur — defining a new class of planet.
Ancient ice cores from Antarctica show CO2 held steady at ~250 ppm while oceans cooled 2.5°C — suggesting ocean temperatures drove climate shifts more than greenhouse gases alone.
H5N1 has now circulated in the US for four consecutive years — 20 commercial flocks hit in one reporting period, 75 human cases across the Americas, and the virus keeps jumping species.
Magma beneath Svartsengi now exceeds 23 million cubic meters — the most since eruptions began — yet the IMO says no eruption is imminent, leaving Grindavik in indefinite limbo.
NASA's X-59 'Quesst' quiet supersonic jet completed its second flight on March 20 at Edwards AFB, though an in-flight warning cut the mission to roughly nine minutes.