The UK has experienced the coldest spring for 50 years, according to information from the Met Office.
The country's average temperature for the last three months is 6 degrees Celsius.
That makes this spring the coldest since 1962 and the fifth coldest in the last hundred years.
The cold weather has been caused by regular strong easterly and northerly winds bringing in cold air.
Spring was already set to be among the coldest but the cooler weather in the second half of May has pushed the average temperature even lower.
March had an average temperature of 2.2 degrees Celsius – 3.3 degrees below the long-term average.
April's temperatures were slightly below the average.
Lower temperatures in May have given an average of 9.3 degrees Celsius and if there is no change after the last three days have been included, this would make it the coldest May since 1996.
A spokesman for the Met Office said: "The colder than average conditions have been caused by different weather patterns at certain times, but generally this season has seen frequent easterly and northerly winds which have brought cold air to the UK from polar and northern European regions."
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