(5 of 5) SEE: NOAA's Global Significant Climate Events Map for March 2023 The tropics saw 4 named storms in March — all reached tropical cyclone strength. MORE: NOAANCEI StateOfClimate
Aerial view of a harvesting machine clearing brown, drought-stressed fields of corn on March 12, 2023, in San Jerónimo Sud, Santa Fe, Argentina. According to experts, this drought, linked to a third straight La Niña climate pattern, is the worst in 60 years and affects 55% of the country. Argentina is the world's top exporter of soy oil and meal, the third for corn, and a major supplier of beef and wheat.
Global sea ice coverage also felt the heat, with sea ice running at its second-smallest extent since records began in 1979, according to scientists from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information.March 2023 March 2023 also was the 47th-consecutive March and the 529th-consecutive month with temperatures above the 20th-century average.
A map of the world plotted with some of the most significant climate events that occurred during March 2023. Please see the story below as well as more details in the report summary from NOAA NCEI at www.ncei.noaa.gov.: Globally, polar sea ice coverage ranked as the second-smallest coverage on record since records began in 1979. Only 2017 had a smaller global extent.
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