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Climate Change
publication date: May 31, 2010
America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Climatic Data Centre has stated that the combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for both April and for the period from January to April. As well as that April's average ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for any April.
The monthly analysis, based on records going back to 1880, showed April's global land and ocean average surface temperature was the warmest on record at 58.1°F (14.5°C), which is 1.37°F (0.76°C) above the 20th century average of 56.7°F (13.7°C).
The UK Met office says we have had the warmest April on record, with virtually no rain in some areas. The average temperature was 10.2C (50.4F), beating the previous April high of 9.2C (48.6F), recorded in 1943. Rainfall in the driest region, East Anglia, was only 5% of the expected amount, and even in the wettest parts of Scotland it was down 30%.
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