Weather tracker: global average temperature highest ever for April

Figures from EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service show it was 11th time in a row monthly record has been brokenEarlier this week, the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service declared April 2024 to have had the highest global temperature for the month since records began. The average air temperature was 15.03C, 0.14C higher than the previous record in 2016 and 0.67C more than the 1991-2020 climate average.Compared with the average April in the preindustrial period, considered to be 1