Emerging threatTrend continues: April 2016 the seventh consecutive warmest month on record
April 2016 was the warmest April on record for the globe, according to NASA. every month from October 2015 to April 2016 has now been warmer by 1 degree Celsius or more above the 1951-1980 average. Parts of Alaska, Russia, western Greenland, and northern Africa had a temperature deviation of at least 4 degrees Celsius above the April average.
April 2016 was the warmest April on record for the globe, according to data released on Saturday by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. April also marks the seventh consecutive month in a row in NASA’s dataset in which the earth has recorded its warmest respective month on record.
NASA reports that the global temperature departure in April was 1.11 degrees Celsius above the 1951-1980 average. This exceeds the previous April record set in 2010 by 0.24 degrees Celsius.
The International Business Times reports that every month from October 2015 to April 2016 has now been warmer by 1 degree Celsius or more above the 1951-1980 average used by NASA. Before October 2015 – and dating back to 1880 — the deviation from average in a single month had never exceeded 1 degree Celsius.
IBT notes that April 2016 is also the 369th consecutive months at or warmer than average. The last colder-than-average month in NASA’s database was July 1985
Parts of Alaska, Russia, western Greenland, and northern Africa had a temperature deviation of at least 4 degrees Celsius above the April average. Many parts of Asia, eastern Europe, Australia, northern Africa, Brazil, the northwestern United States, and western Canada experienced temperature deviation of 2 degrees Celsius or more above April’s average.
There were, however, a few areas where April temperatures were below average — parts of Antarctica, extreme southern South America, eastern Canada, and parts of the northern Pacific and northern Atlantic Oceans.
NOAA will release its April temperature findings on 18 May.
