April Temperatures Hottest on Record

April 2016 was the hottest April on record and the seventh consecutive month of this year to be among the hottest on record.

New NASA data, released over the weekend, showed April broke the previous record for the month and increases the likelihood that 2016 will also be easily the hottest year on record.

The data also showed that April was the third month in a row that record temperatures were reached by the largest increases yet, in fact, it was the seventh consecutive month that was at least 1 full degree Centigrade over the 1951 to 1980 mean for April.

Since February, climate scientists have begun referring to the trends as a "climate emergency," being given an extra boost by the current large El Nino system over the Pacific Ocean.