March 2025 was the hottest ever recorded in Europe, and the second globally. This was revealed by the Climate Change Service in Copernicus, the scientific collaboration program of the European Union that deals with the observation of the earth. According to the data communicated by the project, the average temperature in Europe was 6.03 ° C, i.e. 2.41 ° C higher than the average of the month recorded from 1991 to 2020. If instead we broaden the focus to the whole world, the average temperature in March was 0.08 ° C lower than that of 2024, the highest ever recorded. But still 0.02 ° C higher than in March 2016, the hottest third ever.
The main anomalies
The temperatures were mainly higher than average throughout Europe, with the major anomalies recorded on Eastern Europe and south-western Russia. In the Iberian Peninsula, however, the colder temperatures of the average have been recorded.
Out of Europe, the temperatures were above average in most of the Arctic, in particular in the Canadian archipelago and in the Baffin bay. Anomalies were also recorded in the United States, Mexico, in some parts of Asia and Australia.
The average global temperature in March 2025 was 1.6 ° C higher than the late nineteenth century. According to the forecasts of scientists, a total increase of 2 ° C would be a catastrophe: among other things, it would cause a large reduction of polar ice, the unwary of many cultivated areas and the raising of the level of the seas, to the point of making large coastal areas uninhabitable.