Typical weather for bank holiday getaway
Friday 2nd April 2010, 10:15AM BST.
The Easter getaway was in full flow today with typically grim weather ushering in the bank holiday weekend in Shropshire and Mid Wales. Good Friday was expected to be the bus-iest travelling day of the holiday.
An estimated 20 million people across the country took to the roads and trains today, but in Shropshire roads were relatively traffic-free during the morning.
There was respite for drivers travelling through Pant, near Oswestry, to get to the Mid Wales coast where long-running roadworks have been suspended for the weekend. The improvement works on the A483 trunk road were scheduled to last for nine weeks when they began in March.
Although the wintry conditions that gripped much of Scotland and Northern Ireland for the last few days have moved on, most of the country faces rain today and tomorrow.
There will be some brief respite on Easter Sunday with sunny spells before more unsettled weather on Monday.
Forecaster Andy Ratcliffe, of MeteoGroup, said: “Conditions will be quite miserable for much of the Easter holiday. Temperatures will be slightly cooler than normal for this time of the year.”
Last night the southbound M6 was closed near the M1 junction in Warwickshire after a seven-vehicle pile-up.
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Normal meteorological service resumed then. Easters as I remember them, wet cold and grey as Birmingham decamps itself to Wales to sit in their tin boxes before all fleeing back at the same time to leave us in gridlock and pollution hell.
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It may have been grim, but did anybody see the intense rainbow against the inky black sky during the downpour this evening? That made up for it.
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