It ’s only May , and this twelvemonth is setting new standards in terrific uttermost temperature . The latest case comes from Nawabshah , Pakistan , where it was 50.2ºC ( 122.4ºF ) on April 30 . meteorologist think this is the hottest shaded temperature ever recorded for a reliable weather station in April , anywhere on Earth .
The World Meteorological Organization does not furnish an official account of monthly temperature record for the planet , so the claim this is the hottest April temperature ever ca n’t be absolutely confirmed . Moreover , in April 2001 the urban center of Santa Rosa , Mexico , reported an even higher 51.0ºC ( 123.8ºF ) , but the conditions Underground’sDr Christopher Burtdescribed this to theWashington Postas “ of dubious dependableness ” . No other challenger has been found .
Records such as this do n’t happen in closing off . Most of Pakistan and much of India have been experience weather that would be extreme for July , so is off the charts for spring - time . The effect is being drive by an enormous mass of blistering water in the north - easterly Indian Ocean .
Temperature measurements by metropolis from professional networkogimet.com . Gallic meteorologist Etienne Kapikian was the first to notice that the figure for Nawabshah is belike a world April record .
Unsurprisingly , the heat has driven up requirement for electricity from those golden enough to have air conditioning or at least fans . ineluctably , this has led to power outage , wee-wee the position far worse . There are official news report of people fainting , but societal media is more distressing still .
Nawabshah also set a monthly national heating system record in March , and nearby Larkana coif the previous April record book for Asia last class .
In 2015 , a heatwave caused an estimated 1,200 death in Karachi alone , and it is tough to reckon how high the death price will go if the sea heat dome is still present when summer comes .
Although South Asia is suffering the most , other character of the creation have also had an astonishingly hot month . Sydney had it’shottest April Daysince record began , Eastern Europe experienced temperatures far above normal , and records for Asiatic Russia were also founder .
Not all the exceptional temperature this year have been on the high side . European suffered through the “ Beast From the East ” in February when temperatures were 7ºC ( 13ºF ) below normal for that time . Naturally , climate change deniers leap on this as a defense of global warming , handily ignoring the coincidental temperatures in the Arctic an astonishing20ºC ( 3 ºF)above the seasonal norm .
Both these events were plausibly stemmed from the loss of Arctic Sea Ice , which changes wind patterns so that warm and moth-eaten air flow rate tounseasonal places . ocean ice this twelvemonth was thesecond lowestrecorded for April .
Perhaps the most frightening aspect of all is that this event come about when the world is in anear - neutral phaseof the El Niño Southern Oscillation ( ENSO ) . ordinarily , temperature record are let out during warm El Niño or La Nina events .
