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Images: Western Europe's spring plagued by winterlike weather

Think our spring has been cold and snowy? Europe is getting hitting hard too.

Temperatures in Europe are forecast to fall below average for the first time in 18 months.

Most of the region will be colder-than-normal in April, according to seven out of eight forecasters surveyed by Bloomberg, as cool air sweeps in from the Atlantic.

Every month since September 2013 has been warmer than normal, according to WSI Corp. in Andover, Massachusetts, which says western Europe and the U.K. will be colder-than-normal next month.

In Southern Germany, temperatures may fall as low as 14 degrees below the norm early this month in parts of Eastern Europe and southern Germany, Joe D'Aleo, chief meteorologist at New York-based WeatherBell Analytics, said.

The second half of April may be "rather cool with unsettled conditions spreading across the north and much of continental Europe," Matthew Dobson, senior energy meteorologist at MeteoGroup in London, said.

Not all of Europe will be cooler next month. Iberia and the Baltic States are predicted to be warmer than usual this week while east Scandinavia is expected to be as much as 3 degrees higher than normal for most of the month, according to MetraWeather.

Temperatures in France are predicted to be as much as 2 degrees below normal in the week to April 12, MetraWeather said.

Europe's cold spell is poised to continue into May. MDA Weather Services expects below normal temperatures throughout the region. WSI says south Europe and the U.K. will be cooler than normal in May with temperatures in the rest of the bloc rising above normal.

Tulips are covered with ice and snow in Wernigerode, eastern Germany, Thursday, April 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Cars drive through heavy snowfall near Wernigerode, eastern Germany, Thursday, April 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
A couple make their way during heavy snowfall in Wernigerode, eastern Germany, Thursday, April 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Snow covers Easter eggs on a tree in Wernigerode, eastern Germany, Thursday, April 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Snow covers Easter eggs on a tree in Wernigerode, eastern Germany, Thursday, April 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
A woman is reflected in a puddle as she walks alongside the bank of the river Main in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, April 2, 2015. (AP Photo/dpa, Christoph Schmidt)
A man walks along the fresh tracks in the snow in the old town of Erfurt, central Germany, Thursday, April 2, 2015. Weather forecasts predict changeable weather for Germany during the next few days. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
A man walks along the fresh tracks in the snow in the old town of Erfurt, central Germany, Thursday, April 2, 2015. Weather forecasts predict changeable weather for Germany during the next few days. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
A stork sits in his nest on the roof of a church during snowfall in Treplin, eastern Germany Thursday April 2, 2015. Weather forecasts predict changeable weather for Germany during the next few days. (AP Photo/dpa, Patrick Pleul)
Strollers make their way through the snow on Kahler Asten mountain, near Winterberg, western Germany, Thursday April 2, 2015. Weather forecasts predict changeable weather for Germany during the next few days. (AP Photo/dpa, Oliver Berg)
A scilla siberica stands in a snow-covered meadow at the horticultural exhibition 'ega' (Erfurt Garden Construction Exhibition) in Erfurt, central Germany, Thursday, April 2, 2015. Weather forecasts predict changeable weather for Germany during the next few days. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
The statue of St. Wenceslas in the Prague downtown is covered by snow on Thursday, April 2, 2015. Weather forecasts predict heavy snowfall for the major part of the Czech Republic on Thursday afternoon and in the night. (AP Photo/CTK, Vit Simanek)
People stand around the statue of St. Wenceslas covered by snow in the Prague downtown on Thursday, April 2, 2015. Weather forecasts predict heavy snowfall for the major part of the Czech Republic on Thursday afternoon and night. (AP Photo/CTK, Vit Simanek)
Ice covers parts of a buttercup flower at the horticultural exhibition 'ega' (Erfurt Garden Construction Exhibition) in Erfurt, central Germany, Thursday, April 2, 2015. Weather forecasts predict changeable weather for Germany during the next few days. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
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