https://phys.org/news/2020-05-april-tied-warmest-eu-climate.html
Luckily, the area I live in, the Atlanta metro area, had a pretty normal April this year, unlike the last several which went almost directly from winter to summer.
by Marlowe Hood
May 5, 2020
Last month tied 2016 for the hottest April on record worldwide, with particularly high temperatures over western Europe and north-central Asia, the European Union's climate monitoring network said Tuesday.
Temperatures were also well above average over parts of Greenland and Antarctica, accelerating the disintegration of kilometres-thick ice sheets that have become the main drivers of sea level rise, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reported.
April 2020 was a statistically insignificant 0.01 degrees Celsius cooler than the same month in 2016, the warmest April registered since the late 19th century, when reliable records began.
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The five last years have been the hottest on record, as was the decade from 2010-2019.
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Atmospheric concentrations of CO2—which causes global warming—are now at their highest level in at least 800,000 years.
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