What happened in the back yard of many North Americans last month was not at all representative of the experience elsewhere in the world. While it was freezing cold and snow fell over much of the eastern United States and Canada, it was the third-warmest April on record for most of the rest of the planet. Many lakes in Minnesota did not see all of their ice melt until May’s first week, the latest on record. Nawabshah, Pakistan, reported a temperature of 50.2 Celsius on April 30, possibly the highest April temperature ever recorded on the planet. Both of these extremes fit the narrative of a warmer world in which hot weather is more intense and rainstorms turn heavier.

Source: National Post May 08, 2018 12:11 UTC