Another Wintry Blast heading our way

[unclefudgly]

Boy oh boy am I fed up of this cold weather! Now it seems to be looking very likely that next week could be even worse, with a good chance of heavy snow over much of England.

Hope I'm not the bringer of doom, but just read this article, and it has me a little worried, saying it could be like 1981, and other weather watchers are saying as bad as 1908 when there was 40cm of snow on April 26th!

TWO Buzz - Arctic blast and snow risk?

Might be worth holding off putting those Toms in your unheated greenhouse until after the danger has passed

[Mrs Bee]

Oh deep, deep joy. I have been very late with my tomatoes this year which is probably going to work out well, if we are in for nasty cold weather.

All the other seedlings go in the utility at night.

I think I can probably take cold if the sun is shining. If it is grey all the time it brings everyone down.

[vixylix]

noooooo - we better have an AMAZING summer to make up for all this cold!

[Jungle Jane]

Cold spells are normal for April I remember protecting things from the frost & wind last year. I was just reading we've got a 23% chance of snow on Saturday,the 30th April & 1st May looks better 6-7degrees over night. It's like we have two seasons now,6 months summer & 6 months winter.

[Philthy]

At least at this time of year the inconvenience is short lived; it'll have melted away within a couple of days. January snow thaws, refreezes, thaws, refreezes.. and then there's just lethal ice for days.

[BUFFS]

I can remember 3ft of snow in april of 1970 in thetford, Norfolk, in training in the army, in little 2 man tents, that was bl***y cold. I have just come in from planting my toms into the cold greenhouse border, they have put up with weeks of cold nights without keeling over, and, as we only seem to get a couple of weeks of sun each year now, they can get on with it, last summer the melons died on the vine, in the greenhouse, the summer was so absent, but hopefully it will be better this year....we have been saying that since our last proper summer in 2006, how time flies..

[Nicos]

Oh joy......lambing in the snow?...well that'll be a first!

Best pack me thermals!

[Scoot]

Got a horrible feeling this summer is going to be rubbish like last year.

[muddled]

Okay, Nicos wins!

I shan't complain about the temperature because faffing with seedlings is my hobby...delivering lambs in the small wee hours during wintry showers will definitely be a nightmare!

S@d that for game of soldiers!

[Baldy]

Got a horrible feeling this summer is going to be rubbish like last year.

No Scoot... no... you are quite quite WRONG. Its going to be great - that's why Spring has so far been mostly dodgy... we'll get payback come summer I'm telling ya!

Balders

Mindless optimism is the best way...

[Greenleaves]

Really depends what you read and where, express says it will be a heatwave in a few days!

[Thelma Sanders]

Really depends what you read and where, express says it will be a heatwave in a few days!

But nobody believes them! Ha ha

[Scoot]

No Scoot... no... you are quite quite WRONG. Its going to be great - that's why Spring has so far been mostly dodgy... we'll get payback come summer I'm telling ya!

Balders

Mindless optimism is the best way...

I really hope you're right.

[Penellype]

Really depends what you read and where, express says it will be a heatwave in a few days!

Is this the same express that has promised us 100 days of snow in the one of the warmest winters on record? Take with a mount Everest of salt!

As a complete amateur with an interest in the weather, my take on the rest of this year is as follows:
Remainder of spring cold - there is considerable "northern blocking" forming over Greenland, courtesy of a sudden stratospheric warming event that happened in March. Last time we had a comparable event was in February 2013, which led to an exceptionally cold March.
Summer could start pleasantly warm and dry, if we are lucky. It is likely to go downhill rapidly if the current thoughts about El Nino rapidly changing into La Nina are correct. Anyone remember 2007 (cold and exceptionally wet/flooded)?
Autumn may give a brief respite, but winter looks likely to be cold. There are several factors which look likely to work together to make winter much colder than the last couple of years, but we will have to wait and see how some of them (La Nina in particular) pan out.

There's one good thing about all this. The likely scenario as I see it is so damn bad that almost any variation in it is likely to be an improvement!

Please be aware that I have no qualifications in this subject whatsoever. I very much hope my interpretation of what I have gathered from things I have seen and heard in various places is wrong.

[jackarmy]

Is this the same express that has promised us 100 days of snow in the one of the warmest winters on record? Take with a mount Everest of salt!

As a complete amateur with an interest in the weather, my take on the rest of this year is as follows:
Remainder of spring cold - there is considerable "northern blocking" forming over Greenland, courtesy of a sudden stratospheric warming event that happened in March. Last time we had a comparable event was in February 2013, which led to an exceptionally cold March.
Summer could start pleasantly warm and dry, if we are lucky. It is likely to go downhill rapidly if the current thoughts about El Nino rapidly changing into La Nina are correct. Anyone remember 2007 (cold and exceptionally wet/flooded)?
Autumn may give a brief respite, but winter looks likely to be cold. There are several factors which look likely to work together to make winter much colder than the last couple of years, but we will have to wait and see how some of them (La Nina in particular) pan out.

There's one good thing about all this. The likely scenario as I see it is so damn bad that almost any variation in it is likely to be an improvement!

Please be aware that I have no qualifications in this subject whatsoever. I very much hope my interpretation of what I have gathered from things I have seen and heard in various places is wrong.

Yep, what Penny said