Glitteratti: April Snow

Just when you think winter is over and summer is almost here, April can really catch out the unwary.

Received a message from Angie (from London) narrated that they awoke to a blanket of snow, on 6th April 2008! Also, Teresa posted some pics of her building snowman at her backyard in Slough, Hertfordshire. In the news, Brits were struggling to cope following Sunday's blizzards across Southern England. It was the heaviest snowfall for nearly 20 years. The temperature dropped to a chilling minus 6 deg Celsius in some places.

Yes, April, the month of extremes, very unpredictable. April is traditionally notorious for showers, but this time round the precipitation had grown out of hand and so it was replaced by hail and sleet. If you ask any meteorologist which month cause them greatest forecasting headaches, it bounds to be April. I recall the Met man always going on about the high pressure over Siberia leaking and forcing its way to the British Isles and blowing the chilled wind from Arctic. Oh, whatever that is, he can continue to blind us with science, the fact is that the Brits will have more wintry conditions ahead.

Remembering the last bad April snowfall in Britain was back in 1989. Yes, they are right, nearly 20 years ago.

When it is snowing and hours immediately after that, is a picturesque scene, breathtaking! Once the snow starting to melt, it turns into a dirty palette. Worst still if the temperature starting to rise again, the melting snow will turn into icy sleet, very slippery and you will find pedestrian wobbling their way through or turned topsy-turvy.

Some snaps taken during the cold snap (courtesy of others).