Global temperatures continued to soar in March, maintaining a historic heat streak that has defied scientific expectations, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service.

In Europe, March 2025 was the hottest on record by a significant margin, the climate agency reported on Tuesday.

The record-breaking heat contributed to extreme weather patterns across the continent, which is warming faster than any other region in the world.

Globally, last month was the second-warmest March ever recorded in the Copernicus dataset.

The world has been experiencing an almost unbroken stretch of record or near-record temperatures since July 2023.

Data reveals that virtually every month since then has been at least 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than pre-industrial levels — a threshold widely recognized as critical in climate science. March 2025 exceeded this benchmark, registering 1.6°C (2.9°F) above the pre-industrial average.

The prolonged anomaly has left scientists working to understand the full extent and underlying causes of the unprecedented warming.