I’ve never known such a cold April! 🥶

We are on the coast in the south and yesterday it was very warm, we got a lot of gardening done. Today, it was dry first thing so we decided to go to a National Trust to look at their gardens. Well, ten minutes into our journey the heavens opened and it was torrential rain. Shall we continue I asked DH? Yes he said, it won’t last……but it did and we were very glad of our hats, gloves, snoods and waterproof jackets. It was really cold for April.
Of course, now we are back home, the sun is out!

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Here in east Scotland we have had lots of lovely days . We sit in our unheated conservatory when it is sunny and had to open the door it was so warm . To-day has been lovely .

We must have had sun here when we were out because our naff conservatory was warm when we got home.

It was warm yesterday and suddenly the clematis has bloomed, the peonies have buds and everywhere looks green.
Even the stubborn apple tree has three blooms on it.

Unfortunately, back to chilly rain again today.

It says 8* and 9* all next week with rain and wind
Oh happy days !!!
Come on summer

Here in east Scotland we have had lots of lovely days . We sit in our unheated conservatory when it is sunny and had to open the door it was so warm . To-day has been lovely .

It says (BBC) that it’s sunny and 14° here. It was sunny earlier on because of the wind it was not 14° and now the sun has gone behind the clouds, it’s even colder.

Not too bad here in Glasgow, so long as you stay out of the wind. 16°C but there's a strong breeze from the east that takes the edge off it. Glasgow is quite sheltered though.

We do seem to be stuck with easterly winds for the foreseeable future. I eventually found a proper pressure map with isobars (remember those?) and it seems we have a huge anticyclone stuck off Norway, keeping the winds in that quarter.

Last week when I was in Hull the wind was in the north and it had razor blades in it that all but took your skin off. It was bitterly cold. Of course in the flatlands in that part of the world there's nothing west of the Urals to stop it.

I agree, it has been a long, miserable Winter. The sunshine is intermittent, so I’ve only managed one shorts & t-shirt afternoon last week, whilst gardening. We’re in SE London/Kent border. Off to Spain with my daughter on Monday to visit my sister and can’t wait to feel some warm sunshine - it’s in mid 20s, so just about right. 😊

Cold here in North Devon as well,was lovely and sunny yesterday but also cold

It does seem as if we remember lovely sunny and warm Aprils in the past, However my twin daughters birthday is on 22nd of this month and I can well remember the year we purchased them their first ever two wheeled cycles (with stabilisers), and they were unable to use them as there was so much snow on the ground outside for the week after their birthdays in a London suburb..

I was in Pendle yesterday having lunch with our daughter it was a beautiful day. Today back home we have just put the central heating on its raining and cold no two days are the same.

15° here in central Scotland and was 13° the last few days. There's been a sunny spell but it's not warm in the strong wind. I think last year was unseasonably warm at this time. I suppose you're used to warmer weather further south.

Lovely weather yesterday, I managed to get the grass cut. Today it is cold wet and windy.

It has been a miserable winter, long, cold, windy and wet and spring seems to be no better.

It was bright and sunny at the Yorkshire Showground yesterday, but the wind was cold. I remember being at the Harrogate spring flower show many years ago and we had to shelter from the snow in the big glasshouse in the Valley Gardens.
When we married in April 1982 we had a lovely warm day.

I did read that later in the year (didn’t specify how late) El Niño is coming into play which will warm the earth. Not that we need it really given last summer in the northern hemisphere.

Definitely feels cooler to me here in Cheshire. I am still using the heating from time to time, and I can’t recall doing that at this time of year before. I am currently still in winter layers. We are off to lovely N Wales for a couple of nights tonight so just hoping there will be some glimpses of the sun.

We dont seem to get two or more consecutive days of sunshine and warm. I remember at the beginning of lockdown we were outside for days on end.
I'm still in winter coats.

Ditto- and we’re in Australia ( southern states). It has been much colder down here for the last few years.

I dont find it any different from previous years.
However here in Glasgow we are used to cold wet weather.
It has been sunny her for the last few days. Oh joy!
My birthday is in May, it snowed the day I was born and we have had snow quite a few times in May.

6 degrees by the coast in Somerset. Grey and drizzly rain. It feels very cold!

Cold and raining in the midlands. Dipped down to zero the night before last and I don’t think it’s been above about 8 degrees actual temperature all month.

I hate it.

It's 9 degrees here in Nottingham. I've put the heating on!

Suns out but the wind is strong and freezing cold and has been for weeks now

It’s cold and raining with a fairly brisk breeze here in S E Essex.

The weather is not helping my grumpy mood 😡

Same here in our bit of Normandy. Overnight 1 or 2°, bitter cold winds (weirdly often from the south). Our heated floor is still on....