World experienced hottest April on record, climate monitor says

Water is sprayed to alleviate high temperatures caused by a heatwave, at the Gerardo Barrios square, in San Salvador, El Salvador [File: Jose Cabezas/Reuters]

The world experienced its hottest April on record, continuing an 11-month streak of unprecedented high temperatures, the European Union’s climate change monitoring service has said.

Each month since June 2023 has ranked as the planet’s hottest on record, compared with the corresponding month in previous years, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Wednesday.