{"id":7091,"date":"2016-05-18T22:04:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T02:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7091"},"modified":"2016-05-18T22:04:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T02:04:38","slug":"noaa-april-2016-was-12th-consecutive-record-warm-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/05\/noaa-april-2016-was-12th-consecutive-record-warm-month\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA: April 2016 was 12th consecutive record warm month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA released their monthly climate report for the globe for April 2016 today. \u00a0You can read the summary at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/sotc\/summary-info\/global\/201604\">https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/sotc\/summary-info\/global\/201604<\/a>\u00a0and follow their links to a full report. \u00a0Many parts of the globe were at record-setting warm levels, although a few cold pools were still present, including east of Hudson Bay and near Iceland in the North Atlantic. \u00a0The global average temperature for April was almost 2 degrees above the 20th century average and broke the old record high temperature (set last year) by half a degree. \u00a0The year to date average temperature also broke the previous all-time record by a half degree. \u00a0The Northern Hemisphere snow cover for April was also the lowest in the 50 years of record.<\/p>\n<p>One of the results of this string of broken records is that 2016 is virtually guaranteed to break the all-time warmest year on record. \u00a0The &#8220;racetrack&#8221; graph\u00a0below shows that 2016 is far above the pace of the previous warmest year, 2015. \u00a0Even with El Ni\u00f1o rapidly fading, it is unlikely that the global temperatures will cool enough to bring the year to date totals below last year&#8217;s values. \u00a0You can read more about this from <em>Forbes.com<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marshallshepherd\/2016\/05\/18\/2016-on-pace-to-easily-surpass-2015-as-warmest-year-on-record\/#374c291857c9\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/global-temp-anomaly-201604.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7092\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/global-temp-anomaly-201604-300x245.gif\" alt=\"global temp anomaly 201604\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/global-temp-anomaly-201604-300x245.gif 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/global-temp-anomaly-201604-169x138.gif 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/ytd-horserace-201604.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7093\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/ytd-horserace-201604-300x225.png\" alt=\"ytd-horserace-201604\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/ytd-horserace-201604-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/ytd-horserace-201604-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/ytd-horserace-201604-184x138.png 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/ytd-horserace-201604.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA released their monthly climate report for the globe for April 2016 today. \u00a0You can read the summary at\u00a0https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/sotc\/summary-info\/global\/201604\u00a0and follow their links to a full report. \u00a0Many parts of the globe were at record-setting warm levels, although a few cold pools were still present, including east of Hudson Bay and near Iceland in the North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-summaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7094,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091\/revisions\/7094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}