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Official weather reports show that temperatures stayed below 0 °C (32 °F) for nine consecutive days. [1] March 2013 was reported to be tied for the country's fourth-coldest March since 1910. Mean temperatures were 2.5 to 3 °C (4.5 to 5.4 °F) below-average from February to early April, and there was a continuous, strong, cold easterly wind.
The March 2013 United Kingdom winter storm was an exceptional weather event that took place in the United Kingdom and Ireland on the night of 22–23 March 2013. Described as 'the worst snowfall for 30 years', [ 4 ] the event brought chaos to many parts of Northern England, Northern Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
The 2013 extreme weather events included several all-time temperature records in Northern and Southern Hemisphere. The February extent of snow cover in Eurasia and North America was above average, while the extent of Arctic ice in the same month was 4.5% below the 1981–2010 average. [ 1 ]
In Ukraine, over 100 deaths were attributed to the cold. [64] 2013. United Kingdom March–April 2013 – The UK Spring 2013 cold wave was a prolonged spell of cold weather which brought with it very heavy snowfalls, the worst in March for 30 years and since 1947 in some places. There was also some very cold temperatures with England (CET ...
The Met Office reported the storms produced the wettest 1 December to 31 January since 1876; [2] a local authority report states the winter as a whole, from the beginning of December until the end of February, was the wettest recorded in the UK since records began in 1766. Parts of South East England received almost two and a half times the ...
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has issued amber cold weather health alerts. It says low temperatures are likely to put vulnerable groups in particular at risk and to increase pressure on ...
Snow mapped: Where freezing weather and flooding will hit UK with more snow forecast. Tuesday 7 January 2025 19:14, ... (UKHSA) has issued cold weather health alerts for all of England, ...
The repeated storms fit into a pattern of disturbed weather in the Northern Hemisphere, which saw from November 2013 a disturbance to the jet stream in the western Pacific, which propagated eastwards bringing a warm winter to Alaska, drought to California, and repeated cold air outbreaks to the eastern USA where the early 2014 North American ...