1981-2010 baseline, with its average minimum dropping a whopping 2.5C below the mean:
Austria April Mean [zamg.ac.at].SWITZERLAND
The national average in April across
Switzerland sank to 2.9C a full 1C below the 1981-2010 norm.
The last time the country suffered an April this cold was back 2001.
And across the Upper Engadin, the month actually finished up almost 2C below the baseline you have to go back to the 1980s here to find a colder April, reports meteoschweiz.ch who calls conditions in April: The Great Cold.
THE UK
Not to be left out, the UK Met Office has confirmed that the average temperature in April was the lowest seen in Britain since 1922 (solar minimum of cycle 15). It also states that there were high levels of air frost, not seen since 1960.
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The weather predicted by Deutsche Wetterdienst for 9pm tonight, May 3rd
A warning of gales or severe gales covers the Isle of Wight tonight (Monday 3 April) and tomorrow morning.
Multiple forecasters including the Isle of Wight Meteorological Service have issued an alert concerning the winds to be produced by an area of low pressure due to cross northern England tonight, a weather system described as vigorous by the UK Met Office.
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