Beauvais, France 🇫🇷 broke its monthly heat record on March 31 with a baking +24.8°C and then went on to beat its monthly cold record on April 6 with a chilling -6.9°C.
This violent season flip is brutal for flora and fauna.
A closer look et excellent travail de @KeraunosObs
Arctic air is engulfing almost all of Europe in the next few hours. You should notice a massive temperature drop.
Snow is falling quite widely across parts of northern Europe as we speak.
This animation shows the wind chill temperature, a calculation accounting for strength of wind and air temperature.
Short story: it is going to feel extremely cold for April.
We can't be too surprised by cold and snow and April. This is not rare - it is actually common.
However, this level of cold is impressive. I would say this is a particularly strong Arctic outbreak. Overnight lows will fall below zero widely across Europe.