April has always been an erratic time for weather, with the month itself being associated with showers and varying wildly in its conditions.
While it might be expected that some days will be sunny and others wet, the idea of very cold temperatures may be hard to stomach. After all, Easter has come and gone and the cricket season has started. Surely winter has no business here until November at the very least?
However, that is not what the weather forecasters say. While talk of a mini-heatwave is not quite accurate for London over the rest of this month, with the Met Office forecasting temperatures around the mid-teens, there may be cause for concern around the end of the month as a front of low pressure approaches.
Indeed, anyone needing boiler repair in Clapham will need to get someone on the job soon because the weather will get much colder at the end of the month, so it will be no time to be short of hot water.
That sort of news gets certain tabloids and their readers very excited, so it’s no surprise to see the usual suspects talking about snow and ice. In reality, however, the Met Office notes that it will only be the north that gets wintry showers. Nonetheless, it will be pretty nippy everywhere, even if it isn’t a polar vortex, beast from the east or anything else of that magnitude heading our way.
In the end, this may just be a typical, unsettled April with a few extremes like the recent stormy weather in the week after Easter. But whenever your boiler goes on the blink, it is important to get it fixed fast. You may not have icicles hanging off surfaces if you can’t get your gas heating on in spring and summer, but it could still get a bit chillier than you would hope, especially at night.