In information that can come as no shock to most Britons, the Met Workplace has confirmed that April was the sixth wettest since information courting to 1836.
In all, there was 55 per cent extra rainfall than the long run common, the forecasting physique mentioned.
It has additionally been the wettest April since 2012, the provisional statistics present.
Forecasters measure Spring from March to Could – and to this point the Met Workplace says we have seen 96 per cent of the long run common for the complete season.
Spring has been so moist that each England and Wales have already seen greater than their long-term common rainfall for the complete season.
In information that can come as no shock to most Britons, the Met Workplace has confirmed that April was the sixth wettest since information courting to 1836. Pictured: pedestrians on Westminster Bridge on April 19
The UK as a complete has seen 96 per cent of its common springtime rainfall.
At this level, we might usually solely have had round two thirds (66 per cent) of common rainfall.
In addition to being moist, the climate was additionally boring, with sunshine ranges simply 79 per cent of the long-term common for the month.
Many areas exceeded their long-term common month-to-month rainfall, with Scotland having its fourth wettest April with 148.9mm of rain – greater than 60 per cent of its common and the wettest April since 1947.
Met Workplace Scientist Emily Carlisle mentioned: ‘April has been a continuation of the previous few months: usually moist, windy and unsettled.
‘April showers had been current from the start of the month, with frontal methods bringing persistent rain throughout the UK.
‘Though a high-pressure system moved over the UK on the twentieth bringing some drier climate, by the tip of the month, low stress was again in cost, bringing with it extra rain.’
The month began heat, significantly alongside the southeast coast – with temperatures hitting 21.8°C in Writtle, in Essex.
However temperatures dropped, and remained solely barely under common for many of the final two weeks of April.
This balanced out the hotter temperatures at first of the month and resulted in a provisional common imply temperature of 8.3°C for the UK, solely 0.4°C increased above the 1991-2020 long-term common.
In all, there was 55 per cent extra rainfall than the long run common, the forecasting physique mentioned
Cloudy situations usually resulted in in a single day temperatures being held up, with the common minimal temperature being above common (+0.8°C).
There have been simply 122.9 hours of sunshine in April, 79 per cent of the long run common.
There was just one ‘named’ storm – Storm Kathleen, which introduced heavy rain and robust winds to Scotland, Wales, elements of Northern Eire and the west coast of England.
Paddy Graham-Jonesof Albert Bartlett, a number one UK potato provider mentioned fields of potatoes have rotted because of the moist climate.
Talking of 1 area, he informed Sky Information: ‘I hoped I might discover one good potato right here, however there’s not one left. They’re all rotten.’
