Warmest April on record!

SOARING temperatures made April in Oldham the warmest since records began.

And Met Office experts said early indications point to last month being the warmest across the nation since records began 350 years ago.

The Oldham Chronicle’s weatherman, Damian Rodgers, who files data on his local readings to the Met Office at the end of each month, confirmed it was the warmest April he had known since he started taking daily recordings more than 30 years ago.

Damian recorded an average temperature of 11.6C (52.9F), which is 4C above the normal April average of 7.6C (45.7F).

Last month’s record temperature beat the warmest previous April of four years ago, when temperatures averaged 10.1C (50.2F).

The highest temperature in Oldham this April was 24.3C (76F) on Thursday, April 21, the warmest April temperature ever recorded by Damian in more than three decades.

Last month also saw only one-third of the normal April rainfall, at mere 24mm.