April’s weather extremes in pictures

The Harbour Bridge in Sydney, Australia, was shrouded in heavy fog. The misty skies delayed flights in and out of the city. [Dean Lewins/EPA]

In the Swiss Alps, water was sprayed in apricot orchards to protect blooming buds with a thin layer of ice. Fruit farmers tried to protect their buds from frost damage as unusually low temperatures settled in. [Valentin Flauraud/EPA]

Buildings are seen in front of an approaching sandstorm in Aral, Xinjiang, the Uighur autonomous region of China. [VCG/Getty Images]

Spring also means foggy mornings as a man walks past a mist-shrouded Empire State Building in New York City. [Gary Hershorn/Getty Images]

Bathers on the beach in Bloemendaal, the Netherlands, enjoyed a summer preview when temperatures reached into the low 20's degrees Celsius. [Koen van Weel/EPA]

Japanese cherry blossom trees bloomed in the cemetery in the town of Pecs, Hungary, when the daily peak temperature neared 20 degrees Celsius. [Tamas Soki/EPA]

Indian schoolgirls covered their heads to protect themselves from the scorching heat in Bhopal, India. April temperatures rose to well above 40 degrees Celsius leading up to the monsoon season. [Sanjeev Gupta/EPA]

People make their way through a street, flooded by heavy rains in Lahore, Pakistan. At least 49 people have been killed by the torrential downpours and flooding. [Rahat Dar/EPA]

People sat on the sand during a warm day in Melbourne, Australia. The late season heat reached into the low 30's degrees Celcius. [David Crosling/EPA]

Yemenis walk through a flooded road following heavy rains in Sanaa. Heavy rains hit the capital and most parts of the low rainfall Arab country. [Yahya Arhab/EPA]

People enjoyed the beach during the warm weather on Easter Monday in Brighton, England. This month's Easter weekend heat has broken previous records. [Andrew Hasson/Getty Images]

Cars slowly make their way through a flooded road after a rainstorm in Guangzhou, China. [Zhang Zhitao/Southern Metropolis Daily/VCG/Getty Images]

Staying hydrated in Yangon, Myanmar, as searing heat put the country under extreme and life-threatening conditions. Temperature records were broken in Yangon as the afternoon heat reached 42.2 degrees Celsius. Other parts of the country reached over 45C. [Lynn Bo/EPA]

Mozambique was hit by a second cyclone in just over a month. Cyclone Kenneth was the strongest storm on record to ever hit the northern coast of Mozambique. Days of heavy rain made rescue and relief efforts almost impossible in some areas. [Emidio Josine/AFP]