Temperatures in April around the world were nearly equal to those of April 2016, the warmest on record, according to European Copernicus service on climate change.
Global temperatures were broadly equal to those of the previous warmest April (April 2016)
, Copernicus said on Tuesday (May 5th) in a press release, specifying that April 2020 had experienced an average temperature below 2016 of a insignificant 0.01 ° C
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April 2020, on the other hand, was 0.08 ° C above the third hottest April, 2019, and 0.70 ° C above the average recorded between 1981 and 2010.
Above average temperatures in Europe
The highest above average temperatures (1981-2010) were recorded in the Eurasian regions, notably Siberia, in Greenland, on the Arctic Ocean, in Antarctica, on the coast of Alaska.
They also far exceeded the average in Mexico, western Australia and parts of central and western Africa.
In Europe, temperatures far above average over the western part of the continent, but remained below in the northeast, as in central Canada, or parts of South and Southeast Asia.
After a record decade, which has ended with a year 2019 which was the second hottest ever recorded on the planet, the 2020s started on the same trend.
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