Climate Change May 2024. The northern hemisphere’s snow cover extent in april was the smallest on record. The copernicus climate change service recorded yet another series of record high temperatures for april 2024, another indication of the rapid warming underway as greenhouse gas emissions from human activity increase.

It is also the day that the european commission’s copernicus climate change service officially reports may 2024 as the hottest may in recorded history. The northern hemisphere’s snow cover extent in april was the smallest on record.