--- title: Global Monthly Heat Records Keep Getting Shattered description: April 2024 was the hottest April on record. It was also the Earth’s 11th consecutive month of record-breaking heat. canonical: https://time.com/6975854/april-record-heat-consecutive-months/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-05-08T08:30:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T17:35:07.466Z article:section: Climate og:title: Global Monthly Heat Records Keep Getting Shattered og:description: April 2024 was the hottest April on record. 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Ezra Acayan—Getty Images by [Eamon Akil Farhat / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Eamon Akil Farhat / Bloomberg Contributor May 8, 2024 8:30 AM UTC April was the Earth’s 11th [consecutive month](https://time.com/6965086/march-record-heat-high-temperature/) of record-breaking heat, with warmer weather already sweeping across Asia and a hotter-than-usual summer expected in Europe. The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said last month’s temperatures globally were 1.58°C (2.8°F) above historical averages and marked the hottest April on record. The past 12 months have been 1.61°C higher than pre-industrial temperatures, exceeding the 1.5°C threshold that policymakers and scientists say could threaten life on the planet. “Whilst temperature variations associated with natural cycles like El Niño come and go, the extra energy trapped into the ocean and the atmosphere by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases will keep pushing the global temperature towards new records,” Copernicus Director Carlo Buontempo said in a statement. Temperatures across Europe are expected to climb into the weekend with the U.K.’s Met Office forecasting highs of 26°C in parts of England. The Nordics are also warming up, with Oslo forecast to reach a high of 23°C on May 14, hotter than Madrid, according to Weather Services International. > [](https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1787837350120190058?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) The Copernicus program—the world’s biggest provider of climate data—uses billions of measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and weather stations around the world for its monthly and seasonal forecasts. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6975854/april-record-heat-consecutive-months/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6975854/april-record-heat-consecutive-months/"},"headline":"April Was the 11th Consecutive Month of Record-Breaking Heat","datePublished":"2024-05-08T08:30:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T17:35:07.466Z","description":"April 2024 was the hottest April on record. 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