Snow in April is not at all unusual in our region, in fact there was
an average of 2 days of snow during April in the 30-year period from
1971-2000 in Coventry; we did have 6 days of April snow in 1998, and a
record number of 8 April snow days in both 1908 and 1917,

For April 2008, make that one snow day so far, with 7cm of lying snow
at 0900hr GMT on Sunday, this is the first April day with snow on the
ground at morning observation since 1994, and the deepest April snow
since 1981.

Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UK
www.bablakeweather.co.uk