"It’s been a really frosty April this year across Central Europe.
... April across much of Europe has been unusually cold, frosty and even snowy, and the media have been awfully quiet about it.
With a mean temperature of 4.5°C for Germany, April so far continues to
be the second coldest since 1881, according to German DWD national
weather service records.
Only 1917 was colder at a mean of 4.3°C.
Another cold blast forecast for next weekend
... One thing is already certain: For Germans, it will be the most snowy April since 1986.
...
The German media recently claimed that “the global warming continues”,
but the NCEP GFS run of April 18 shows a temperature anomaly of near
zero."
The following chart shows the mean temperature anomalies with respect to the 1991-2020 reference period so far (up through April 17):
