So at the end of February I did a little blog on the Winter of 2012/2013 and a little note at the end questioning whether we will have snow and cold temperatures in March or April and look what happened....
The coldest March for 51 years.
March saw unseasonable and a rare prolonged period of cold weather causing severe across the UK with many wondering whether spring will ever arrive.
Temperatures for March were around 3 degrees below average at around 2.5C throughout March.
Throughout the month I have been posting about the weather and the snow:
Around the 10th of March the whole of the UK was battered by heavy snow, blizzards, hail and thunder and the Channel Islands so one of its worst snowfall event on record.
Around the 23rd of April tens of thousands of people were left without power after severe weather saw thousands of farm animals killed and over a foot of snow fall with drifts up to 10ft!
It was also confirmed that the Easter Sunday was the coldest on record. Apart from the fact it was one of the earlier Easter weekends we can have [22% of all Easter weekends are in March] it was the coldest weekend over Easter and some people saw snow flurries and others had a white Easter from the previous snowfall event as it was too cold for it to melt!
The lowest temperature recorded over the weekend was -12.5C in Braemar in the Scottish Highlands.
The cold weather could last until next week but there is signs of change on the way.
So why has it been so cold this March and for so long?
Find out here.
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