Cold, wet and miserable sums up the Easter holiday weather for much of the country, but then early Easters have a shocking record for being more like winter than spring. It is more likely to snow at Easter than Christmas, and over the past 50 years snow has fallen on 14 Easters. The Easter holiday over March 21-24, 2008 had a ferocious outburst of snow, sleet, frost, hail, thunder, cold and strong winds. Easter 2013 was so cold that it achieved the coldest Easter Sunday on record with minus 12.5C at Braemarin the Highlands on March 31. There was no snowfall, but it was bitterly cold all holiday with widespread frost.

Source: The Times April 01, 2018 23:03 UTC