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According to some media reports, it is after some 30 years that there has been snow in Murree, Nathia Gali and surrounding areas during April.
"After 30 years snowfall started in April in Nathiagali and Ayubia. All thanks to Global warming. Shame on people who are criticizing billion tree tsunami project," said one Twitter user.
© PAIn Cambridge, people took to punting along the River Cam
The unusually warm weather across the UK is the result of low pressure over the Atlantic and high pressure over western Europe drawing in warm air.
Thursday's high of 29.1C was recorded at St James's Park in central London during the afternoon, making it the hottest UK day in April since 1949.
The average maximum temperature for the UK in April is 11.9C.
The highest recorded temperature for this month was 29.4C back in 1949 in London.
Pollen levels are high throughout much of the UK, with BBC Weather warning it could be "uncomfortable" for hayfever sufferers.
© Oklahoma MesonetTuesday’s high and low temperatures in Oklahoma.
The weather whiplash was caused by two strong low pressure systems that moved through the Central United States nearly back to back. The first caused heavy snow in the Midwest, tornadoes in the Southeast and torrential rain in the Northeast. Behind it, winds from the north pushed temperatures well below average for this time of year.
Right on its heels, though, the next storm came out of the Rocky Mountains, flipping the weather from wintry to summery, seemingly overnight.
On Tuesday morning, winds were a slight breeze out of the northeast. By 1 p.m. they were out of the south and gusting to 30 mph or more, pumping in hot, dry air from northern Mexico and Texas. The effect on temperatures was remarkable.
Alva, in north-central Oklahoma, started the day at 33 degrees just before sunrise. Temperature shot up like a rocket after that, eventually capping out at 101, measured by the Oklahoma Mesonet. That's a temperature rise of 68 degrees.
This is via the Canadian Ice Service, and it's a view I have not seen before. It shows a polar view looking down at the North pole which is a composite of several days worth of MODIS views via NASA Goddard to create a Composite of the Arctic image. The actual image is very high resolution and I can't show it fully here, but the detail is quite good. To help orient you, I've annotated some landmarks on this preview image.
Comment: We're well into Spring and the US has been relentlessly battered by cold storms since winter. But it's not just the US seeing unusual cold blasts, it's happening all over the globe. The visual above confirms all the data that has been collected over recent years, which is that snow and ice are increasing because the planet is clearly cooling:
- Where's Spring? Below freezing temps and snow as Arctic blast set to return to UK - cold expected to last till MAY
- Arctic sea ice advances further each year, and this years growth is faster than expected
- The coming ice age - Antarctic peninsula has been cooling not warming
- Antarctic snowfall has increased 10% in the last 200 years
- Huge increase in snowfall over Antarctica say NASA, growing since 1900
- France: This winter it snowed too much, to the point of preventing ski resorts from breaking attendance recordst
© Stations du Mercantour
"We could have done better if the weather had been better. There were even several days of closures due to the storm" summarizes Pascal Lequenne, director of the Auron tourist office, where the turnover of ski lifts, the second highest ever recorded, still climbed 15%.
Videos posted to YouTube and social media by eyewitnesses show the 'Old Wharf' restaurant, in Samara's historic city center, being carried down the Volga River by a giant sheet of ice. The restaurant was occupied at the time of the accident, according to local media reports.
Scores of records for both snow and cold have fallen. Minneapolis; Madison, Wis.; and Marquette, Mich., are among the many towns and cities experiencing their coldest-ever April. And Minneapolis; Sioux Falls, S.D.; and Green Bay, Wis., were recently dealt record snowfalls for the month.
And, with the wintry pattern lingering for a few more days, more records for extreme winter weather are likely to fall.
© National Weather Service
It has been 137 years since the first 17 days of April have been as cold and snowy as they've been in 2018, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Gino Nizzo.
This April is the second-coldest on record, trailing only April 1881, Nizzo said.
Snow is forecast to continue Wednesday night into early Thursday, making for slippery driving as a slushy mix accumulates. About an inch can be expected on grassy areas and elevated surfaces, according to the weather service.
Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route: The 90-kilometer sightseeing route, which stretches along the Japan Alps, opens every April to November.
Stretching across the Toyama and Nagano prefectures north of Tokyo, the 90-kilometer sightseeing route -- dubbed the "Roof of Japan" -- offers incredible views of the 3,015-meter Mt. Tateyama and 2,478-meter Mt. Akazawa-dake peaks, while providing access to everything from Japan's highest altitude hot spring to the country's highest waterfall.
But the route's biggest attraction is the unbelievable Snow Wall Walk, located along the pathway in Yuki no Otani (or Great Valley of Snow).
Comment: Earlier this month up to 4in (10cm) of snow covered parts of Scotland, northern England and north Wales, as Scotland faced its coldest spring for 39 years.