The temperatures this year have been very high indeed, particularly the maximums.
My maximum temperature anomalies for Basingstoke for the first 3 months of 2014 are as follows:
Jan +2.7C
Feb +2.7C
Mar +3.1C
However, there are at least 5 other years in recent times when the overall mean maximum for the first three months was even higher than this year. Just goes to show how many very mild years we have seen in the last 25 years.
Minimums in Jan and Feb were also more than 2C above average but for March the anomaly is only +0.7C. The average minimum in March was just 0.1C higher than in January.