In Europe, it was nan 2nd warmest April connected record.
April 2024 was warmer than immoderate different April connected record, continuing an 11-month streak of record-breaking months, Copernicus scientists person said.
Temperatures were 0.67C supra nan 1991 to 2020 mean for nan period and 0.14C supra nan erstwhile precocious group successful April 2016 according to nan EU’s ambiance monitoring service.
March besides collapsed erstwhile records by a tenth of a grade and, while nan 11-month streak of somesthesia records is unusual, thing akin happened earlier successful 2015/16.
In Europe, mean temperatures during April were 1.49C supra nan 1991 to 2020 average. This makes it nan 2nd warmest April connected grounds for nan continent.
Eastern European regions successful peculiar saw temperatures astir supra mean while others for illustration Iceland, Finland, Norway, and Sweden knowledgeable below-average temperatures.
Are nan above-average temperatures owed to El Niño?
Heat successful nan water besides reflects this unusually lukewarm period. Globally, oversea aboveground temperatures for April were an mean of 21.04C - nan highest worth connected grounds for nan period and conscionable marginally beneath nan 21.07C seen successful March.
El Niño has started to weaken towards neutral conditions but past month’s marine aerial temperatures successful wide remained unusually high.
The upwind arena doesn’t afloat explicate nan streak of precocious temperatures seen complete nan past 11 months either.
“El Niño peaked astatine nan opening of nan twelvemonth and nan oversea aboveground temperatures successful nan eastbound tropical pacific are now going backmost towards neutral conditions,” says Carlo Buontempo, head of Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).
“However, whilst somesthesia variations associated pinch earthy cycles for illustration El Niño travel and go, nan other power trapped into nan water and nan ambiance by expanding concentrations of greenhouse gases will support pushing nan world somesthesia towards caller records."
Wet upwind and drought successful Europe
Most of north-western, cardinal and north-eastern Europe besides saw an unusually bedewed April.
Large parts of eastbound Spain, Italy, nan occidental Balkans, Türkiye, Ukraine and confederate Russia, arsenic good arsenic Iceland were drier than mean during April.
Across confederate Europe, drought has been an ongoing problem for months.
In Spain, Catalonia declared a drought emergency successful February erstwhile reservoirs fell beneath 16 per cent. Authorities person only conscionable eased h2o restrictions aft caller rainfall.
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