UK Heaviest Snowfall For 18 Years

This year the UK has experienced the coldest winter weather conditions and heaviset snowfall for 18 years.

An average temperature across December, January and February was 3.0C which has been the lowest since the winter in 1995 which averaged around 2.5C.

The cold weather has been in contrast to the run of very mild winter temperatures that have been recorded over recent years.

Natural variability of climate means that the UK will continue to see spells of colder weather at times. Although, if it had not been for the general warming already observed in global temperatures, this winter may well have been even colder.

Peter Stott, Climate Scientist at the Met Office, said: "Despite the cold winter this year, the trend to milder and wetter winters is expected to continue, with snow and frost becoming less of a feature in the future.

"The famously cold winter of 1962/63 is now expected to occur about once every 1,000 years or more, compared with approximately every 100 to 200 years before 1850."

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