We’re all wondering why this week started with sunshine, shorts, t-shirts and barbecues and has finished today with snow, hail, hats and gloves… fortunately the Met Office has tried to explain.
After weeks of glorious spring sunshine and blue skies, today the north-east was dealt a blast of winter weather with temperatures dropping below freezing overnight and apparently our friends in the artic are to blame.
The artic maritime air mass has brought wet, cold air with it and with the wet cold air comes sleet and, today, snow.
Snow has fallen across Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and further north, while temperatures are expected to drop as low as -3C again tomorrow morning, with Deeside expected to be particularly cold.
The predicted plummeting conditions have resulted in the Met Office placing a yellow warning for ice across Grampian, the Highlands and islands.
The Met Office has also said we should not be so shocked to see the white stuff as, on average, April sees over two days of snow a year in Scotland.
On average we get 3.9 days of snow in December and 4.2 days in March but April is certainly not snow free with an average of 2.3 days of snow or sleet fall.
Is it unusual to see #snow in April? We see 2.3 days of snow falling on average each year http://t.co/XLxExllsHE pic.twitter.com/J7iFG0EdmY
— Met Office (@metoffice) April 26, 2015