April 2016 Was 12th Consecutive Warmest Month on Record, NOAA Says

April 2016 was the warmest April on record for the globe, making it the 12th consecutive month that earth has recorded its warmest respective month on record.

NOAA's global State of the Climate report released Wednesday found April's temperature over the Earth's surface was 1.10 degrees Celsius above the 20th century average. This crushed the previous warmest April set in 2010 by 0.28 degrees Celsius.

Defeating a previous record by a few tenths of a degree may not sound overwhelming, but in the world of climate statistics, computed from worldwide temperatures, this is yet another record-shattering figure.

The 12-month streak with record warm temperatures for the world is the longest stretch of months in a row that a global temperature record has been set in NOAA's dataset.

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