- Temperatures in Britain have been labeled as 'average' (8.3 degrees Celsius) by the Met Office.
This April was the warmest worldwide since measurements began in 1940 – and the eleventh month in a row in which records were broken, figures show.
Record levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the weather phenomenon known as El Nino have caused air temperatures to rise around the world, according to Copernicus, the European research agency. Climate change Employ.
Surface air temperatures were 15.03°C – 0.67°C above the 1991-2020 average for April, and 0.14°C above the previous record set in 2016.
The global average temperature for the 12 months to April is the highest on record, at 1.61°C above the 1850-1900 period, used as a benchmark for pre-industrial levels.
This April was the warmest worldwide since measurements began in 1940 – and the eleventh consecutive record month, figures show
In Europe, the continent that is warming the fastest on Earth, temperatures in April were 1.49 degrees Celsius above the 1990-2020 average.
But the temperature in Great Britain is described by the British authorities as 'average' at 8.3 degrees Celsius With officeonly 0.4°C above the April standard from 1991-2020.
The average global sea surface temperature outside the polar regions was 21.04 degrees Celsius, the highest in records from 1979.
Carlo Buontempo, director of Copernicus, said that “additional energy trapped in the ocean and atmosphere from increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases will continue to push global temperatures to new records.”