The latest NASA data showing last April being the hottest month ever recorded only confirms it's going to get hotter and hotter and hotter in the months ahead.

NASA records showed April was the sixth month in a row where the global temperature was over one percent above the 1951-1980 average. April had a temperature anomaly of 1.11 degrees Celsius (1.99 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 20th century average.

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The trend for 2016 is disturbing: every month since January have been the hottest months in over 130 years of record keeping.

NASA data also shows that in each of the past seven months, the global average surface temperatures have exceeded the 20th century average by more than 1 degree Celsius or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit.

The heat records set from January to April ensure that 2016 will set a new record for the warmest year in NASA's database, even if the rest of this year sees somewhat cooler global temperatures.

New data to be released next week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is expected to show the last 12 consecutive months all broke records for rising heat.

These increases around the world mean that within the last year, global temperatures have risen by 25 percent since the 1880s.  As a result, sea ice levels are expected to be at an all time low this summer.

Record temperatures are expected to continue from between four to six months after which they might begin to taper off

Seattle reported its April average temperature (high + low divided by 2) at 56.7 degrees, way beyond the old record of 53.6 degrees. And exceeding a monthly temperature record by 3.1 degrees is also a record for Seattle.

Overseas, in Singapore, the Meteorological Service Singapore confirmed April is the warmest April since it began keeping records in 1929. The highest daily maximum temperatures exceeded 34 degrees Centigrade on most days in April.

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