As the winter recedes and the heat wave of summer takes over, there is no denying the fact that the planet is getting warmer. While we may argue about the reasons for this Global Warming and just how much the urbanization of mankind has contributed to it, even the experts agree that the temperatures are really shooting up each year.

Last month, March 2017, was cited to be the warmest March in 137 years of modern record keeping of temperatures by NASA. The mean March temperature calculated in 1951 to 1980 was 1.12 degrees Celsius  lower than the temperatures we faced last month. Basically this means that we were 1.12 degrees Celsius warmer than we should have been in March.

Still not convinced the planet is heating up? The last two top March temperature related anomalies have taken place in the two previous years. All records are made available to the public by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. The institute collects data on temperatures in 6,300 meteorological stations all over the world.

These include land based, ship based and buoy based instruments that constantly monitor and report the temperature. The regions covered span from sea surfaces in the temperate zone to Antarctic research stations. This is one thorougher science project in operation.