The average high temperature for the month in Ogden, as measured at Ogden-Hinckley Airport and reported at weatherunderground.com, was 61.55 degrees.

That’s the highest March average on the site dating back to 2008, beating the previous high of 59.29 degrees in 2015. The average March temperature since 2008 is 52.17 degrees.

The high temperature was over 60 degrees for the final 15 days of the month.

That streak snapped with a soggy first day of April on Wednesday. The high temperature was 55 degrees.

A Wednesday article on weather.com emphasized just how warm the month was in an article titled “March Was The Record Warmest In Dozens Of US Cities From Texas To California.”

According to the article, Salt Lake City was among a list of major cities where this March was the warmest in history, according to preliminary data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Southeast Regional Climate Center that includes data since at least the 1960s.

Other cities on the list were: Dallas, San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Albuquerque, Denver, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Dozens more cities recorded either their second- or third-warmest March, including Atlanta, Nashville, Houston and Memphis.

For many of these cities, the records were crushed.

“It’s the weather equivalent of a major leaguer hitting 79 home runs or an NFL quarterback throwing 60 touchdowns in a season,” the article stated.

To put the heat in Las Vegas in March in perspective, the article noted that the city’s average March temperature would also have been its hottest April. That would have also been true in Los Angeles, Long Beach, California, and Santa Maria, California, the article stated.

Contact Standard-Examiner editor Ryan Comer at rcomer@standard.net.