Using the predict command, you can specify the hold back option to specify how many values before the end to start the prediction from..
However, you are asking something a little different, predicting based on each month's volumes. In this case, I would modify the splunk search to remove all the non-required months (everything except April) and base my prediction on this.
Personally, I don't think this would produce great results. If you have a large volume of ticket in May, for example, it is likely that April may get a little bit of a bump as well. If you remove all other months, you're probably going to miss that influence.
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