record heat

2016 predicted to be hottest year on record

Last April was the hottest on record since 1880, with an increase of 1.1 degrees Celsius compared to those calculated between 1951 and 1980 average month, while 2015 was the warmest and 2016 could break that record.

Carlos Gay, coordinator of the Research Program on Climate Change UNAM, and responsible for the Group on Climate Change and Solar Radiation Center of Atmospheric Sciences, said that the first four months of this year have beaten records already as the hottest.

He recalled that also October, November and December, were the warmest compared with the same months of previous years. That . . .