A Cooler April for Australia, but the Hottest on World Record
Published on May 14, 2024
Climate data has revealed the world experienced its hottest April on record in 2024, but Australia bucked the trend by registering a cooler than usual month. Bureau of Meteorology senior climatologist Blair Trewin said that data sets from major data centres had reported April was the hottest on record globally. One of the reports available—the Copernicus Climate Change Service— shows that April was 0.67 degrees Celsius (33 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 1991-2020 average and 1.58C above the estimated April average for 1850-1900, taken as a reference for pre-industrial conditions. But despite a global trend towards a hotter month, Australia was, on average, cooler in April....