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2026-03-31 SURFACE

112°F in Arizona and California — the hottest March temperatures ever recorded in the United States. Over 1,100 daily records broken since March 1. Phoenix tied its *April* record in March. World Weather Attribution found the event "virtually impossible without human-caused climate change." The Western snowpack that feeds summer water supplies is being decimated weeks ahead of schedule. *The gap: the heatwave was processed through the weather frame — remarkable, record-breaking, photogenic. Cher ...