It’s April, and Spring of Deception is finally setting in. However, it looks like we’re being braced for a third winter at this point, with massive amounts of snow being forecast for next week for Glasgow and Scotland.
WXCharts are predicting heavy snowfall starting on April 3, with hardest-hit areas facing a whopping 10cm of snow every hour. As a result, snow could be falling for 54 hours in total in the UK, affecting most of the country. Northern England, the Midlands and Scotland could be the first to witness snow from 6am on April 3, followed by snow in higher altitudes in Scotland on Thursday, and carrying on into Friday, April 5.
Exacta Weather’s James Madden told the Mirror: “In addition to the recent snow events, we are now also still seeing some high-confidence signals and multiple model runs for something more memorable and significant to develop in terms of widespread snow prospects and even harsher Arctic cold from as early as next week and on multiple occasions during the first half of April, as we have been repeatedly covering and insisting upon of late.”
“The snow of last week and this week to date across Scotland and southern England/Wales is just a gentle reminder that winter weather is still more than possible at this time of the year, and the coming weeks will also prove this further as some more enhanced than before wintry blasts and low-level snow or multiple overnight countrywide snow events persist into the first half of April at the very least.”
However, there have been no reports of snow from The Met Office, with no weather warnings being issued at this time.
In their long-range for April 2 to 11 forecast, The Met Office said: “Next week begins with some uncertainty, but it looks likely that we will see a return towards more widely unsettled conditions as another area of low pressure pushes across the UK with changeable weather likely largely dominating throughout this period. Most areas look likely to see further showers and some longer spells of rain at times, although interspersed with some drier spells in between.
It looks likely that a north-south split will be set up across the UK. The wettest weather will tend to favour the south whilst northern parts remain a bit drier on average. In association with this split in general temperatures will be close to average, but it will be occasionally cooler in the north, and milder in south.”