If you feel incredibly hot nowadays, you are not alone. In fact, you may not even have known that you just lived through the hottest March ever in recorded history!

Sweden, Denmark and Norway were also unusually warm. In contrast, France and Britain were slightly cooler than their 1981-2010 average for the month of March, at 0.8 Celcius and 0.2 Celcius respectively.

Far northeastern Canada, parts of northwestern Africa, and a region of south-central South America were also chillier than average. The Arctic region marked its second highest March temperature on record, with land readings overall at 3.34 Celcius higher than the 1981-2010 average.

In the world's waters, temperatures were also on the rise, registering the highest global ocean temperature for March since 1880, and beating out the previous record set last year.

"The seven highest monthly global ocean temperature departures have all occurred in the past seven months," said NOAA.