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Temperatures in April Matched Warmest on Record, Satellites Show
Switzerland and France reported extremely high temperatures, according to Europe’s Copernicus agency
A tractor kicks up dust while ploughing a crop field during drought conditions, in Aisne, France, in April.
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Temperatures in April were on par with the previous warmest April on record four years ago, with extremely high temperatures in some parts of Europe, Greenland and Antarctica.
Above-average global temperatures meant April was just 0.01 degrees Celsius cooler than April 2016, a difference considered statistically “insignificant” by the Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. Global temperatures were 0.7 degrees Celsius warmer than the average April between 1981 and 2010, the agency said in its monthly report.