Was April’s weather really that bad?

While it has not been as cold as we might think, rainfall and sunshine amounts will be where our perceptions of a bad month are warranted.

Emily Carlisle from the Met Office, external said, “April has been a continuation of the past few months: often wet, windy and unsettled” in a release of the monthly statistics.

Across the UK we have had around one and half times more rain than average and therefore provisionally the sixth wettest April on record and the wettest April since 2012.

Almost all parts of the UK have had above average rainfall but it is northern England, central and southern Scotland that have been the wettest.

Over twice the normal April rain has fallen here.

In Carlisle it was the wettest April in 62 years and for Edinburgh the wettest in 24.

Much of the rainfall fell in the first half of April, counteracting the above-average temperatures.

And so while drier in the second half, temperatures dropped, making it still feel disappointing despite not as much rain.