Whereas it has not been as chilly as we’d suppose, rainfall and sunshine quantities will probably be the place our perceptions of a foul month are warranted.
Emily Carlisle from the Met Workplace, exterior mentioned, “April has been a continuation of the previous few months: typically moist, windy and unsettled” in a launch of the month-to-month statistics.
Throughout the UK we’ve got had round one and half occasions extra rain than common and subsequently provisionally the sixth wettest April on document and the wettest April since 2012.
Nearly all elements of the UK have had above common rainfall however it’s northern England, central and southern Scotland which were the wettest.
Over twice the conventional April rain has fallen right here.
In Carlisle it was the wettest April in 62 years and for Edinburgh the wettest in 24.
A lot of the rainfall fell within the first half of April, counteracting the above-average temperatures.
And so whereas drier within the second half, temperatures dropped, making it nonetheless really feel disappointing regardless of not as a lot rain.
