April 2024 was warmer globally than any previous April on recordwith an average surface air temperature of 15.03 degrees Celsius, 0.67 degrees above the 1991-2020 average for April and 0.14 degrees above the previous high set in April 2016. This it is the eleventh consecutive month that is the hottest ever recorded for the respective month of the year.
This is what the Copernicus Climate Change service (C3S) finds, implemented by the European Center for Medium-Term Weather Forecasts on behalf of the European Commission. All reported results are based on computer-generated analyzes and according to the Era5 dataset, using billions of measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and weather stations around the world.
Last month was 1.58 degrees warmer than the average for the same month for the period 1850-1900, the pre-industrial reference period. Furthermore, the global average temperature of the last twelve months (May 2023 – April 2024) is the highest ever recorded, equal to 0.73 degrees above the average of the period 1991-2020 and 1.61 above the pre-industrial average of the period 1850- 1900.
The European average temperature for March 2024 was 1.49 degrees above the average between 1991 and 2020, making the month the second warmest April on the continent. Temperatures were higher than average, particularly in the eastern regions of the continent.
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