The average global temperature actually just reached new record high levels for this time of year. As I pointed out earlier this week, global mean sea surface temperatures were also rising quite sharply. Arctic sea-ice extent is still a record low too.

See more at https://zacklabe.com/climate-change-indicators/

Preliminary data for March 22-25 all set new records for daily global mean temperature. It’s been a relentless month for climate extremes.
@ZLabe We pretty obviously passed a threshold and tripped a trigger. I wonder which one?