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Berlin.- Last month was the second warmest April globally on record, with a mean surface air temperature of 14.96 ºC, 0.60 ºC above the average between 1991 and 2020 for April, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) in its monthly bulletin released this Thursday.
The climate monitoring component of the European Union (EU) space program indicated that last month was 0.07 ºC cooler than the April 2024 record but 0.07 ºC warmer than the third warmest April, that of 2016.
Furthermore, according to the C3S, April was 1.51 ºC above the estimated average of 1850-1900 used to define the pre-industrial level.
It was also the 21st month of the last 22 months in which the global average surface air temperature exceeded the pre-industrial level by more than 1.5 ºC.
Between May 2024 and April 2025, the temperature was 0.70 ºC above the 1991-2020 average and 1.58 ºC above the pre-industrial level.
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According to Samantha Burgess, strategic climate lead at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, "globally, April 2025 was the second warmest April on record, continuing the long sequence of months above 1.5 ºC above the pre-industrial temperature".
In Europe, the average temperature in April was 9.38 ºC, 1.01 ºC above the 1991-2020 April average, making it the sixth warmest April on the Old Continent.
Temperatures were predominantly above average across Europe, with the largest warm anomalies recorded in Eastern Europe, Western Russia, Kazakhstan, and Norway, while below-average temperatures were recorded in Turkey, the eastern areas of Bulgaria and Romania, the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula, and northern Fennoscandia.
Outside of Europe, temperatures were above average in the Russian Far East and in much of Central and Western Asia.
They were also above average in most of North America, part of Australia, and the Antarctic Peninsula and West Antarctica.
The lowest temperatures were recorded in southern South America, eastern Canada, the Great Lakes region and Hudson Bay, northeastern Greenland and Svalbard, and northern Australia and eastern Antarctica.
On the other hand, the average sea surface temperature was 20.89 ºC, the second highest value recorded for the month, 0.15 ºC below the record of April 2024.
Finally, the extent of Arctic sea ice was 3% below average, the sixth-lowest monthly extent for April in the 47-year satellite record.
