As historic March heatwave finally fades, a brief cooler/wetter interlude will occur across the U.S. West in early April before warmth & dryness likely return

March 28, 2026 - Daniel Swain - Unprecedented March heatwave among most anomalous ever observed, in any month, the American Southwest Well, it sure has been...quite a month. Meteorologically speaking, March 2026 will go down in the record books as the warmest March on record for at least a third, and possibly half or more, of the continental United States. But even # Unprecedented March heatwave among most anomalous ever observed, in any month, the American Southwest Well, it sure has been…quite a month. Meteorologically speaking, March 2026 will go down in the record books as the warmest March on record for at l... [15668 chars]