At 2pm, on Wednesday March 9th, New York City (Central Park) reached 77 degrees and it was feeling more like late spring than winter! It broke a 16 year old record which was set in 2000 when temperatures in the iconic green space hit 69 degrees, according to PIX-TV NY.
The average temperature for March 9 in New York is 47 degrees, while 77 is the normal high for a day in late May or early June. The unseasonably warm days come towards the end of what has been the warmest winter on record for the US.
The average temperature for the Lower 48 states from December through February, known as meteorological winter, was 36.8 degrees - 4.6 degrees above normal. It breaks the record set in 1999-2000.
Last month was the seventh warmest February on record while March continues to break records as scientists blame El Nino and global warming.