The very areas which suffered the cold and snowy March are now dealing with record April heat thanks to an abrupt shift in wind direction. Even early April got off to a cold, even snowy start and so this switch from winter to summer is probably about as fast as you’ll ever see. Many cities have observed their warmest April day in 60 to 70 years.
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The ECMWF saw it coming from well over a week before.
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London, like the rest of the UK got off to a bitter and snowy and mid-winter start to March. Incidentally this wasn’t London’s only snow of March.
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Following daytime maximums which held at 5C with below freezing wind chills to open April, less than 20 days later and the same parts of South east England was 25C warmer and observing it’s warmest April day since 1949.
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It widely reached 27, 28C between The Wash and south London.
Northolt to the west of central London measured 29.1C which fell just 0.3C off the UK all-time record but this was the hottest April day since 1949.
Remember the post from last month which stated Paris, France failed to reach 2C on two consecutive days. The coldest back to back late March days since the 1888?
Almost exactly a month later and the thermometer soared to 29.2C which is the French capital’s hottest April day since 1949 when it reached an all-time monthly record of 30.2C.
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Paris also fell just 0.1C off the warmest April night on record with 16.0C. The record is 16.1C set back in 1987.
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The heat wasn’t just confined to France and England.
Wohoo, cazy warm in southern Sweden today as well, up to +24°C locally! Source: @meteociel pic.twitter.com/GBioidKwA0
— severe-weather.EU (@severeweatherEU) April 20, 2018
Austria got the first hot day this year yesterday, April 20! Station Freisaal in Salzburg reached 30 °C! Report: Aktuelle Wetterwarnungen für Österreich pic.twitter.com/DQPQoiN5xU
— severe-weather.EU (@severeweatherEU) April 21, 2018
First 30 °C today in Salzburg, Austria. 2nd earliest 30 °C after 17/04/1934https://t.co/X2hqwUgj1G pic.twitter.com/Npsiluswbj
— Zdenek Nejedly (@ZdenekNejedly) April 20, 2018
Incredible maximum temperatures in Denmark yesterday, April 19th, 2018. 26,7°C was recorded in Karup which makes the earliest >25°C day in Denmark since 1964. (and that is even warmer than ANY TIME during the summer of 2017 -26,6°C!!). Report: @DannyHoegsholt pic.twitter.com/4MAZuLkyBJ
— severe-weather.EU (@severeweatherEU) April 20, 2018
Italy had a hot day yesterday (April 20): temperatures in the upper 20s, with several stations over 30 °C (up to 32 °C in the extreme northeast). Report: Italia Live Meteo pic.twitter.com/YBatPD0ESc
— severe-weather.EU (@severeweatherEU) April 21, 2018
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