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'Tornadoes' leave trail of destruction across UK: Country is battered as gale force winds and 450 lightning strikes wreak havoc - damaging homes and cars and overturning caravans | Daily Mail Online WWW.DAILYMAIL.CO.UK The first possible tornado struck Knutton in Staffordshire, damaging cars and ripping off tiles at about 6.30am - before the second swept through the West Bridgford area of Nottingham at 7.30am. ‘Tornado’ hits town as strong winds batter the UK WWW.AOL.CO.UK Parks, bridges and tourist attractions across the UK were closed on Monday due to the windy weather conditions. The very active weather will continue to evolve throughout Europe with multiple significant weather events. Snow Ongoing significant snowfalls continuing across the Alps. Another potentially significant snow event could swing back into Albania, Kosovo, current trends really keen into Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, perhaps North Macedonia and parts of West and Southwestern Serbia, this event currently modelled for Sunday and Monday. There is also an ongoing snow event from the Belarusian border crossing Russia with significant accumulations. And another area of snow intensifying as it moves across Norway again further significant accumulations likely. Significant flash flood threat. A significant rainfall event will develop through Saturday into Sunday across Greece and moving into Turkey, after crossing the Black Sea this could continue bringing a significant flash flood risk into Moldova and Ukraine and possibly Belarus.

Downgrades on sunshine forecasted for the next 5-7 days (and beyond). The classic! Can't say I'm surprised. Disappointed, but not surprised. Going to be a shockingly dull month re the sunshine stats by month's end. It just goes on and on.

Spectromat I had to look it up and there's a whole lot of references to summer 2022.

Spectromat Sounds like an early call of a stuck summer pattern. 5-wave patterns can be stubborn to shift in summer, and just need to be wary here of us getting stuck in a trough if the high pressure is too far to the west when the music stops, as it were! The models are currently very keen now for the high pressure over the next week to move west towards the end of the month. Nothing warm in the outlook whatsoever at the moment, a welcome break from the rain over the next week or so, but it could all head wrong again after that. Ho hum!

It depends on what is classed as disappointing.. and excellent.. I'm summising by disappointing you mean, wetter, duller and cooler than average, and by excellent you mean sunnier, warmer and drier than average. Also timelines important, over the 3 months as a whole, rather than parts of the seasons being either, or , or. By such definitions I think of many years that align well, probably 1983, spring was consistently wet, cool and dull, summer brought a very warm dry July, I think August was similiar, not sure about June. 2018 falls foul given the spring fell into both camps. 1995 brought a mixed Spring, sometimes wet, cool and dry, sometimes warm, dry and sunny, overall it was a very dry spring. so it can't be included. 1996 brought a fairly dry but cool dull spring, and a fairly average summer, mmm doesn't fit the bill. 2013 possibly closest contender since 1983, a wet cold dull spring, and a dry sunny warm summer, the hot July cancelled out the cool June, average - warm August. 1983, 2013 fit the definition in this context.

The Met Office this week talked about the development of a 5 wave scenario that could develop and may be long lasting into summer, can anyone discuss what this would mean for weather in the UK especially if the High pressure systems set up to our West please?

Yeah plumes are pretty pants here nowadays too (in actual summer) - the cold front pushes through and just shunts the warm air out the way rather than going bang (haven’t had a summer plume storm here since 2019) May and September however have both delivered for here over the past couple years. I think we’ve had a crazy nighttime strobe show in both those months for two years running. Hard to imagine plumes and storms when the weather has been the equivalent of beige for 8 months solid now.

Don Not countrywide but in 1998, the warmest temperature here was 25C. That would be inconceivable in today's climate.

I think of the mid-April 1966 period as the worst for April weather that I can remember. I was living in Essex at the time, and I remember one day when snow was lying even in the afternoon as there was no April sun to melt it. If it wasn't snowing during that time, it was just cold and rainy. Later, I noticed that Cardington recorded sunshine on only one day from 11th to 20th April that year. Dreadful weather!

I’m gonna go for 24th May which is depressing.

First air frost in a while last night (-1.4 °C) and a decent, chilly, bright start to the day. Max 13.2 °C. Deteriorated later on, though, with gloomy overcast conditions and a little light rain. Wind got up, too.

I did some digging to see if there's any records that go back further than 1900 and found one that goes back to 1875, lowest recorded maximum was 26.8°c in 1879. I think it's fair to say that not achieving 25°c would be an astonishingly extreme situation.

SqueakheartLW Current warmth is surface level and looks likely to be replaced.

Don The whole of March and the vast majority of April were dreadful. Unrelenting cold, wet and dull for almost 2 months.

Metwatch Yes, it was pretty impressive how it almost went from winter to summer in a flash! Spring 2018 is certainly one I will always remember.

Erm, last Spring (2023) was pretty awful here, and Summer 2023 wasnt great, with a 'filling' of a dreadful July.

Don Combined with the snow in March, I would go to say it's one of the best springs for variety in many years. Almost a continental like spring with a defined change from cold - > hot & thundery!

Don looks like only a handful of years have failed to reach at least 30°c since 1900. Lowest max seems to be 27.8°c in 1962. Hottest day of each year from 1900 WWW.TREVORHARLEY.COM

20:30 (18.04.24) Morning beginning with a ground frost, thick nebulous cloud for most of the day with persistent light-moderate rain from 15:30. If the sun came out I didn't see it. Chilly throughout the day Current temp: 9.2c Max temp: 11.1c Overnight minimum: 0.9c Rainfall: 8mm Humidity: 92% Barometer: 1015mb falling 8 Oktas (stratocumulus stratiformis, altostratus)

johncam Rubbish

Wade April 2018 had a hot spell and May was a very summery month, so I wouldn't call spring 2018 poor.

Certainly the outlook is very different fayre to what we've experienced for quite some time. Can't recall the last time we had a cold euro trough and strong heights to our NW linking into the pole. We've seen alot of troughing over and to the SW of UK but not to our east and south east. If any time of year is most likely to produce such synoptics its now, complete opposite to the south west airstream, instead we have a NE flow. Short term, a pleasant spell for far west parts, with dry sunny conditions and respectable temps, further east, cool cloudy with showery dank weather. Next week could well turn quite unsettled for many as lower heights push east , cloud, rain and supressed temps, not what many I expect are wanting.

MP-R if you've jinxed it and we get an August 1995 repeat, I'll buy you a drink

Comparing the end of February to today, the area next to the River Sowe in the city. Certainly an improvement in areas exposed to more sun but some paths still muddy such as below, so I suspect it's mostly the stronger sun doing most of the work rather than much in the way of dryness. This time In April 2020 or 2021 everything would have been bone dry, miss those months! We really do need another 2-3 weeks of virtually no rain to get close still!

raz.org.rain There you go, just shows how unlikely it would be (particularly in this day and age) not to reach 25C during summer, in fact I would go as far to say it would be virtually impossible now?!