On Friday, April 5, 2013 10:40:41 AM UTC+1, George Booth wrote:
On 04/04/2013 20:15, Keith (Southend)G wrote:

Maximum temperature for me here at Southend-on-Sea was +2.9�C, which beat my previous lowest April maximum of 3.4� of 6th APril 2008.



Bob Prichards records I have show 2.8�C on the 3rd April 1964, 3.3�C 14th April 1966, 4.4�C 1970.



How we forget it's nothing new.



Keith (Southend)

http://www.southendweather.net

"Weather Home & Abroad"





09-09 maximum of 2.9 here (daytime max 2.1 yesterday) so the coldest

April 09-09 day in my record but only by a squeak. Light snow showers

earlier gave way to brighter conditions and there's a lot of daylight

now before 0900 GMT and the temperature crept up.

Early days I know but the monthly anomaly is running at -7.1 deg of the

1981-2010 mean. The landscape has a barren look.

09-09 maximum here was 3.2C at 0850z this morning. The minimum: 1.4C at 1208z yesterday. Despite snow grains pretty much all day yesterday I only recorded 0.6mm in the snowdon. It looks like the snow was heavier and more intense further east and south of here