Snow stops play at cricket matches in the south as Britain suffers unseasonable late April cold snap

Snow stopped play at cricket matches today Coldsnap Bookies prompted as untimely, to cut on record are the coldest April the chances of this month.

Play was suspended arrived as snow at noon at Edgbaston, Hampshire Ageas Bowl and Surrey County Cricket Club.

The conditions have to feel far from the spring and throughout the country, with wintry showers falling as far south as Bournemouth. Temperatures dropped overnight in many parts of the country, the lowest recording is -3.4C in Powys in Wales below freezing.

Parts of the UK will be even colder than Siberia in the coming days, with meteorologists lows of -5 ° C expected. In Tomsk in Siberia temperatures are expected to remain above freezing with depths of 1C.

The hope of a sunny May day fade as meteorologists predict the changing weather conditions, will continue.

Yorkshire County Cricket Club, who played in Birmingham Warwickshire at Edgbaston, said an "Arctic Blast" arrived 20 minutes before the scheduled lunch break, players to force off the board.

Meanwhile in Southampton, a match between the Hampshire second team and Second XI Somerset was called off temporarily.
Hampshire Cricket spokesman Jamie Hopkins said: "It's not happened for a very long time, especially in April, many of the players were saying tweeting how shocked they were, some were laughing from the boys about it..

"I've never seen anything like it. It could be expected to the north, but not down here longer."

The covers were also a period after "very unexpected and sudden fall of snow" in Surrey County Cricket Club pulled over.
Snow across the UK prompted incredulity on social media.
Bookies have the chances of this month cut the coldest April are on record. Jessica Bridge Ladbroke said, "to break April 2016 the record is now at 5-1 chance, who was 8-1 last week so that has been cut.

"And may the coldest be cut to log 2-1 10-1, so that a big step for this market."

She added: "It's snow joke that spring was the weather around the business this year, and it looks like May not going to be much better."
Meteo Group meteorologist Billy Payne said temperatures across the UK about five degrees colder than were expected for the end of April, with average lows this week due to below its freezing at about 1C, compared to the expected level of 5-6C.

But he poured cold water on the reports by snow blizzards in southern areas, the conditions can claim to be actually "sleet".

"I think a lot of it just might be sleet," he said. "It seems quite like snow in the texture, but it could be sleet.

Hail is "like summer hail", but softer with more air, which means it breaks up like snow, he said: "It is just another educational process".

The coldest April on record was in 1917 when the overall average mean temperature was 4.3c for the month.

While the average for the first half of April this year was above this level, at 6.9C was the overall average for the month after a cold snap in the last days under the drop.

Nicky Maxey from Met Office said: "The first half of the month, well above the coldest month, but we have had a cold days I would think it's unlikely, but that does not mean that it will not happen.."
It 'unusual' snow was so late to see in April, she said.

"We have cold air coming from the north down, maritime polar air mass, and that is to bring these cold temperatures.

"We end up with the colder air, which means that you are likely to see this wintry showers, especially over higher ground further north."

While temperatures should warm up toward long weekend, there is still a chance of snow, mainly in the northern regions.

"Unsettled and cool weather will continue, as we get into the weekend," Mrs. Maxey said.

"It is rather unstable, so we are likely to see some thunder and especially when we go through the rest hail the week. The long weekend is looking unsettled."

"There are still chances of frost and ice patchy" she added.

It's still a bit of a threat, but an ever decreasing risk that we may see some snow falls further to the north to a higher level. "

Wednesday should see a mix of sunshine and wintry showers, with hail, snow and sleet in the UK.

It will be a chance of snow about 500 meters along the east coast settlement, on Thursday, particularly heavy wintry showers.

Snow is most likely in the Scottish Highlands this weekend.