It's 5 weeks to the Easter weekend and this always crop up every year. In the 30 years, I have lived in this general area, the stats do not back this up for my location.

Just comparing the actual days themselves ie Christmas Day v Easter Day (Sunday)

Snow on the ground Christmas Day: 1995, 2004, 2009, 2010

Snow on the ground Easter Day: none (2008 was a near miss, it rained here whilst further east had snow)

Snow falling or the Bookies' white Christmas: 1993, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2004.

Snow falling on Easter Day: 1998, 2008 (wintry showers after rain cleared)

I am pretty sure other locations will have differing stats but at least for my location and the time-span I have lived there, a white Easter is not more likely than a white Christmas.

It's 5 weeks to the Easter weekend and this always crop up every year. In the 30 years, I have lived in this general area, the stats do not back this up for my location.

Just comparing the actual days themselves ie Christmas Day v Easter Day (Sunday)

Snow on the ground Christmas Day: 1995, 2004, 2009, 2010

Snow on the ground Easter Day: none (2008 was a near miss, it rained here whilst further east had snow)

Snow falling or the Bookies' white Christmas: 1993, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2004.

Snow falling on Easter Day: 1998, 2008 (wintry showers after rain cleared)

I am pretty sure other locations will have differing stats but at least for my location and the time-span I have lived there, a white Easter is not more likely than a white Christmas.

 

 

Checking my records, I've had neither falling nor lying snow on either day, but a few miles north at Chilbolton there was a little lying snow in 2009 and deep snow 2010 both on Christmas Day. In 2009 snow fell on 21st here and lay until 23rd. Snow also fell on 27th-29th Dec 2000, 29th Dec 2001 and there was sleety rain on 27th Dec 2010.

I suppose since Easter varies in date quite a lot, there's more chance with an early Easter, but as you say- here, it's near misses at Christmas and an absolute zero at Easter.

I can't recall ever seeing snow on Easter Day in England...

Easter 2007 or 2008 I think,  when living in Great Yarmouth 4" of Snow meant the model village couldn't open.

Easter day 2008 was pretty good here with a decent fall - woke up to about 5 inches of snow. Think it was heavier than anything that fell in the Winter. But most of it had melted by the afternoon.

Easter 2007 or 2008 I think,  when living in Great Yarmouth 4" of Snow meant the model village couldn't open.

2008.  Easter was in March and a northerly (I think?) brought snow for many (but not here!).   We had snow a week or two later in April and it remains one of my favourites: several inches early on Sunday morning; clearing to blue, sunny, skies; most people off work to enjoy it; and nearly all gone by Monday, so no travel/work/school disruption

I woke up to 4 inches of laying snow on Easter Sunday in 1983 - and it was on the 3rd April. I even observed snow falling as recent as the Easter Holiday weekend of 2013 but hadn't settled. I'm quite sure that I've experienced White Easters in between those two dates, need to look it up.

I've always joked that we'd stand a better chance of a White Christmas if Christmas Day was swapped around with Easter Day, but I haven't looked up the statistics to back it up.

i remember 2008 was a very cold easter with wintry showers bit it was sunday a week later that we had 4 inches of snow in eastbourne and a mid afternoon max of -1   incredible for the south coast ,  easter 1975 brought widespread snow  and there was a good fall on Good friday on the downs  I can recall some potent convective northerlys in past Aprils 

I guess as easter isn`t on a fixed date the chances of a white easter recede the later it falls.

One thing is an almost a dead cert is that easter this year will be colder than xmas 2015

Most times easter falls at the end of march it is colder,down here,than xmas

i remember 2008 was a very cold easter with wintry showers bit it was sunday a week later that we had 4 inches of snow in eastbourne and a mid afternoon max of -1   incredible for the south coast ,  easter 1975 brought widespread snow  and there was a good fall on Good friday on the downs  I can recall some potent convective northerlys in past Aprils 

yes Snow on the beach at sandown Isle of Wight on good Friday 1975.  The snow stayed around for 2-3 days too. 

Pleny ov frowst to come then......

It's 5 weeks to the Easter weekend and this always crop up every year. In the 30 years, I have lived in this general area, the stats do not back this up for my location.

Just comparing the actual days themselves ie Christmas Day v Easter Day (Sunday)

Snow on the ground Christmas Day: 1995, 2004, 2009, 2010

Snow on the ground Easter Day: none (2008 was a near miss, it rained here whilst further east had snow)

Snow falling or the Bookies' white Christmas: 1993, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2004.

Snow falling on Easter Day: 1998, 2008 (wintry showers after rain cleared)

I am pretty sure other locations will have differing stats but at least for my location and the time-span I have lived there, a white Easter is not more likely than a white Christmas.

 

 

It always was a old wives tale, late December is far colder than April so snow is much more likely at Christmas than Easter. Kevin stats are a classic example.

In penrith I have recorded 5 white Christmases since 1990 but only 1 white Easter and across the UK I would say that is typical.

Andy

 

 

yes Snow on the beach at sandown Isle of Wight on good Friday 1975.  The snow stayed around for 2-3 days too. 

One of the great snowfalls of my childhood was the Maundy Thursday snowfall in Birmingham in 1975, 6 inches fell in 7 hours bringing the City to a standstill.

Andy

Sorry a bit late to join in this one - had forgotten my password! The charts on this link I had lost track of or maybe they disappeared from the metoffice website, but they can show the average days of snow falling and snow lying for each month if you go to the averages maps tab. You can also choose 61-90, 71-00 or 81-10

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/climate/

These clearly show that snow falling and lying are vastly less likely in April than December. Comparing March and december it is a bit closer, with snow falling being slightly more likely in March but snow lying is more likely in December. Having said that, when comparing Christmas and Easter bear in mind that we are comparing late December to late March ( or April).

It can also be seen that the chances of snow appear to have mostly fallen a little between the first and last time period.