Snowy Easter: What to Expect

0:00On April 4th, snow on Easter ain't as rare as you might think. It's almost as likely as a white Christmas. Easter shifts dates every year, from late March to late April, making direct comparisons tricky. Over the past 30 years, the Met Office logged 19 white Christmases, but just seven white Easter Sundays, where even one flake counts at A, weather station. March actually sees more snow days on average than December 4.2 versus 3.9, based on older data. Most Easter's hit in April though, dropping chances to about 2.3 snow days. Plus, when it does snow in March, it's more likely to stick around, because the ground stays colder, deeper down. Spring brings wild swings, with cold blasts from the north clashing against warming sun. Back in 1983, the snowiest Easter dump flakes across Scotland, the Midlands, and Southeast England, missing up travel big time. And in 2010, Easter weekend saw 36 centimeters of lying snow and parts of Inverness Shire,

1:01the deepest on record. The coldest Easter Sunday? That was 2014, dipping to minus 12.5 Celsius in Aberdeenshire. Snow loves higher ground, like Scotland's Caringorbs, even in April. This Easter Sunday, after Storm Day moves east, expect snow showers over Scottish hills all day, maybe dipping lower in the north. These could hit Northern England and North Wales Hills early morning before milder air rolls in keeping eye on those forecasts.