blandy Posted April 6, 2021 Moderator Share Posted April 6, 2021 Snowing in Lancashire too. V cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lammy123 Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 Snowing quite heavily on the south staffs / Shropshire boarder. Brrrrr, Will be putting the fire on soon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted April 6, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 6, 2021 Yeah, just had a real flurry here. The weather over the past few years has been a bit all over the place hasn’t it? Beast(s) from the east, record breaking summers, snow in April, I think parts of Worcester and Ironbridge spent most of 2020 under water...that’s just off the top of my head. Maybe it’s my memory but I’m sure it’s been more erratic over these recent years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted April 6, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 6, 2021 Most of the day it's looked like a perfect Spring day, with sun shining and blue sky, maybe tempting you to get a deckchair out, other than at exactly the same time it's been snowing. Really strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted April 6, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 6, 2021 1 minute ago, Mark Albrighton said: Maybe it’s my memory but I’m sure it’s been more erratic over these recent years. No doubt whatsoever, it's a side issue of Global Warming, generally warmer but far more erratic. 100 year floodplains are now 5 year floodplains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 6, 2021 Moderator Share Posted April 6, 2021 It must be a whole two years now since it snowed in early April 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitvilla Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 Beautiful sunny day here ... Here? halfway between Calgary and Vancouver, near the US border. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 6, 2021 Moderator Share Posted April 6, 2021 Quote Snow in late April, more common than you may think Posted on 27 April, 2016 by Met Office Press Office This week many places have seen the type of weather you may usually associate with winter than late April, with wintry showers observed as far south as southern counties of England. However, snow at this time of year is not as unusual as you might expect. Based on records from 1981 to 2010 the UK average is for 2.3 days of snow in April, which is more than the 1.7 days for an average November. Whilst the beginning of April is more likely to be white than the end of the month, there have been a number of notable snow events this late on. Met Office Blog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted April 6, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 6, 2021 I’ll amend it @bickster - snowing on an early April day that was in the main quite sunny, especially in the morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 6, 2021 Moderator Share Posted April 6, 2021 8 minutes ago, Mark Albrighton said: I’ll amend it @bickster - snowing on an early April day that was in the main quite sunny, especially in the morning. Thats seems oddly specific 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted April 6, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 6, 2021 2 minutes ago, bickster said: Thats seems oddly specific Cos that’s the weather we’ve had round here today Fair enough about the historical data of snow in April, but it still feels like the weather generally has been more erratic in recent years. It seems like there’s often a record of some sort that’s being broken. But might be an element of confirmation bias on my part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 6, 2021 Moderator Share Posted April 6, 2021 1 minute ago, Mark Albrighton said: Cos that’s the weather we’ve had round here today It's the weather we've had the last two days tbh Bright blue skys and snow, in fact yesterday it snowed here and the sky was cloudless from my standpoint in the backgarden which was quite surreal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted April 6, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 6, 2021 (edited) 9 minutes ago, bickster said: It's the weather we've had the last two days tbh Bright blue skys and snow, in fact yesterday it snowed here and the sky was cloudless from my standpoint in the backgarden which was quite surreal Like those days where its sunny with not a cloud anywhere you look 360°, yet it's raining on you. Edited April 6, 2021 by sidcow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted April 6, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 6, 2021 1 minute ago, bickster said: It's the weather we've had the last two days tbh Bright blue skys and snow, in fact yesterday it snowed here and the sky was cloudless from my standpoint in the backgarden which was quite surreal Fair enough, it’s not been quite like that here. Yesterday was cold but sunny, managed to get out in the garden for a while. Likewise for most of today, it’s been sunny, blue skies, cold admittedly. But now and during the last two hours it’s like the weather was here back in late December. White skies, quite big snow flakes, the garden developing a blanket of snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 6, 2021 Moderator Share Posted April 6, 2021 4 minutes ago, Mark Albrighton said: the garden developing a blanket of snow. We haven't got that here, just a ten minute flurry every now and again. The Midlands always gets more precipitation than round here due to being on the lee side of the Cambrian mountains in relation to the prevailing wind and those mountains forcing the air to rise 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Your Round Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 (edited) It definitely snowed in April 2017, me and the missus went to The Gambia and got married. It was 53°C on our wedding day! And snowing back home. You’re not normal if you don’t check the weather back home when on holiday Edited April 6, 2021 by It's Your Round 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted April 6, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 6, 2021 It snowed heavily in April when we had our extension built which would have been 2013 I think. I remember standing in the shell of the extension looking up at the new velux windows which were totally blanked out by deep snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 3 hours ago, It's Your Round said: It definitely snowed in April 2017, me and the missus went to The Gambia and got married. It was 53°C on our wedding day! And snowing back home. You’re not normal if you don’t check the weather back home when on holiday Is your wife Gambian, or did you just want to make it as hard as possible for your relatives to follow you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Your Round Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 7 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: Is your wife Gambian, or did you just want to make it as hard as possible for your relatives to follow you Option 2, you’ve hit the nail on the head Not all relatives though, our parents and best friends came. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 I was working on my new erection out the garden yesterday (a summerhouse, which is basically a shed but with glazed double doors) and it was properly four seasons every hour. Hot sun, jumper off, cloudy, jumper on, hail bouncing off my baldy head, hat on, a bit of snow, coat on, sun comes out, hat, coat, and jumper off... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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