A four-day stretch of uncharacteristic heat in March pushed the month near the top of the state record book for warmth. State Climatologist Justin Glisan says one of the days was the hottest ever in March.
Glisan says the record came on the last day of the heat wave. “If you take March 18th through the 21st, temperatures were running about 20 degrees above average across the state. So there were numerous stations across the state that either tied or broke their all time high record March temperature,” Glisan says.
The record heat came just days after a blizzard shut down interstate highways and everything else in the state.
