Gardeners Beware! Frosty nights ahead

Frosty nights on the way..... Credit: PA IMAGES

RETURN OF THE OVERNIGHT FROST

May is the last month of meteorological spring, and should be a sign that summer is nearly upon us, but Jack Frost can still put in a final appearance and it looks like he's on the way for the Bank Holiday Weekend!

We - along with young plants and early buds - might need an extra blanket over the coming few nights as the thermometer is forecast to drop to freezing or below.

WILL IT BE A RECORD BREAKER?

During the last Bank Holiday, over Easter heatwave 2019, some national records were broken in terms of warmest temperatures.

This Bank Holiday is definitely not going to break records for warmth. By day our temperatures will struggle to get into double figures and it will feel colder in the northerly airmass.

To break records for the lowest temperatures (and it doesn't look likely for northern England) we'd have to beat the following. 1981 was a chilly one......but that was 38 years ago!

  • LOWEST MIN TEMP FOR A BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY

  • ENGLAND: -5.1ºC Santon Downham, Suffolk 1996

  • UK: -5.9ºC Kinbrace, Sutherland 2012

  • LOWEST MIN TEMP ON BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND

  • ENGLAND: -5.5ºC Santon Downham, Suffolk . 1981

  • UK: -6.4ºC Grantown-on-Spey, Morayshire 1981

  • UK: -6.4ºC . Kinbrace, Sutherland 1988