April 2016 became the warmest in the history of measurement, it is said in the report of the National Aviation and Space Agency (NASA).

To date, 2016 has been abnormally warm: a deviation below the average of 1951-1980 by more than 1% is recorded for the sixth month in a row. According to the scientists' forecast, the trend of increasing temperatures should be maintained. Data from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are also set to be released next week, with experts believing they will break all temperature records in the last 12 months.

"It simply came to our notice then. I don't know what's next. We understood that El Niño (fluctuations in the surface water layer in the equatorial part of the Pacific, which affects the climate and is one of the causes of drought in Venezuela - ed. Note), will affect the situation, but hardly anyone expected a similar jump, "he told the British newspaper. The Independent meteorologist Eric Holthaus.

According to him, global temperatures have risen in the last year by 25% of total growth since the 1980s 19. century. It has greatly influenced the environment. During the last 18 months, about a quarter of the coral colonies in the ocean suffered from decolorization due to oxidation and elevated temperatures in the ocean, rapidly melting sea ice. The meteorologist predicts that the record high temperatures will stay for four to six months.