OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Last month was the warmest March in recorded state history, following a year in which state and national temperature records were set in Oklahoma.

Associate state climatologist Gary McManus says the average daily temperature of 59.4 degrees was more than 9 degrees above normal and breaks the record of 58.3 degrees set in March 2007.

But meteorologist Ty Judd with the National Weather Service in Norman says that's not necessarily an indicator that 2012 will be warmer than 2011. Judd says the state has received more rain thus far this year that will help dissipate the sun's energy and keep temperatures lower.

Oklahoma's July 2011 average daily temperature of 89.1 degrees was the warmest month in recorded U.S. history and the state's summer average of 86.5 degrees was second-warmest.