"The Dutch report Thundersnow, as German Cities record their First May Snowfall in Half a Century"

 Source:

https://electroverse.net/dutch-report-thundersnow-german-cities-record-first-may-snow/

"Summer is just around the corner, yet it’s snowing ACROSS Europe.

It snowed in the Dutch province of Brabant yesterday, May 7.

In fact, heavy thundersnow was reported: “A unique combination in May,” reads a recent weer.nl article.

Holland’s cold spell, which has been going on for almost two months now, has been severe.

The nation as a whole just suffered its coldest April since 1986 ...
 — average temps finished some 3.2C below the climatological norm of 9.9C.

April’s historic chill also delivered a total of 10 snow days, which made for the most snow recorded in the Netherlands in April since 1977 ...

And the snow has continued into May, too — an incredibly rare phenomenon.

“It’s May 7 … and it is snowing!

What’s going on?” exclaimed one Brabant local on social media.

Another tweeted: “Welcome to May 7!

Considerable snow just in the east of Brabant…”

The snow settled on the ground, “which is very rare nowadays in the third spring month,” continues weer.nl.

“People can’t believe their eyes.”

With an average temperature of just 6C (42.8F), April 2021 was Germany’s coldest April since that of 1977.

The country’s average reading finished a whopping 3C below the 1991-2020 climatological norm, and even 2.3C below the previously-used 1981-2010 baseline.

And now in May, as is the case in many other European nations, the cold is lingering.

According to reports, rare May snow is hitting regions such as Potsdam — the cities’ first May flakes since 1969.

Snowfall is also being observed in Berlin — and after a quick ERA5 analysis, it is revealed that in the past 70 years, May snow has only fallen in the German capital on three occasions: in 1991, in 1978, and back in 1970."