In its monthly report, published on Monday 8 May, the European climate observation programme, Copernicus, reported an “exceptionally” warm April in south-western Europe. While this was the fourth warmest April globally, the average European temperature was 0.23°C above the 1991-2020 baseline, with Spain and Portugal and parts of North Africa recording their warmest April since 1950, uniformly reaching 4ºC above average. On 27 April, a temperature of 38.8°C was recorded in...