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The UK. Climate

Great Britain enjoys the humid and mild marine West-Coast climatel with warm winters and cool summers and a lot of rainfall throughout the year. The prevailing winds blow from the south-west. As these winds blow from the ocean, they are mild in winter and cool in surnmer, and are heavily charged with moisture at ali times. As they approach the mountainous ar()as near the rvest coasts, they rise up tire nlountain siopes. Their tenperahure drotrrs, which canses condensation of rnoisture in the form of rain. Therefor:e the wettest parts trf Britain are those areas where high mountains lie near the west coast: the western I{ighlands of Scotland, the Lake District2 ancl North Wales. The eastern part of Brilain is said to be in the rain-shadow, as the winds lose most of their rnoisture in tlieir passage over the highlands of the west. All parts of the British Isles receive rain at any tinre of the year. Still autumn and winter are the wettest seasons, except in the Tharnesridistrict, where rnost r:ain falls in the sunrmer half of the -vear. Oxfordr, for example, has 29 per cent of its rain in surrnler and only.22 per cent in winter. As to ternperature, Great Britain has warnrer winters than any other district in the sarle latitude. It is

Great Britain enjoys the humid and mild marine West-Coast climatel with warm winters and cool summers and a lot of rainfall throughout the year. The prevailing winds blow from the south-west. As these winds blow from the ocean, they are mild in winter and cool in surnmer, and are heavily charged with moisture at ali times. As they approach the mountainous ar()as near the rvest coasts, they rise up tire nlountain siopes. Their tenperahure drotrrs, which canses condensation of rnoisture in the form of rain. Therefor:e the wettest parts trf Britain are those areas where high mountains lie near the west coast: the western I{ighlands of Scotland, the Lake District2 ancl North Wales. The eastern part of Brilain is said to be in the rain-shadow, as the winds lose most of their rnoisture in tlieir passage over the highlands of the west. All parts of the British Isles receive rain at any tinre of the year. Still autumn and winter are the wettest seasons, except in the Tharnesridistrict, where rnost r:ain falls in the sunrmer half of the -vear. Oxfordr, for example, has 29 per cent of its rain in surrnler and only.22 per cent in winter. As to ternperature, Great Britain has warnrer winters than any other district in the sarle latitude. It is due in large measure to the prevalence of mild southwest winds. Another factor is the Gulf Streaml, which flows from the Gulf of Mexico2 and brings much warmth from the equatorial regions to north-western Europe.

 



The United Kingdom straddles the geographic mid-latitudes between 49–61 N. It is on the western seaboard of Afro-Eurasia, the world's largest land mass. These conditions allow convergence between moist maritime air and dry continental air. In this area, the large temperature variation creates atmospheric instability and this is a major factor that influences the often unsettled weather the country experiences, where many types of weather can be experienced in a single day.

Regional climates in the United Kingdom are influenced by the Atlantic Ocean and latitude. Northern IrelandWales and western parts of Englandand Scotland, being closest to the Atlantic Ocean, are generally the mildest, wettest and windiest regions of the UK, and temperature ranges here are seldom extreme. Eastern areas are drier, cooler, less windy and also experience the greatest daily and seasonal temperature variations. Northern areas are generally cooler, wetter and have slightly larger temperature ranges than southern areas. Though the UK is mostly under the influence of the maritime tropical air mass from the south-west, different regions are more susceptible than others when different air masses affect the country: Northern Ireland and the west of Scotland are the most exposed to the maritime polar air mass which brings cool moist air; the east of Scotland and north-east England are more exposed to the continental polar air mass which brings cold dry air; the south and south-east of England are more exposed to the continental tropical air mass which brings warm dry air (and consequently most of the time the warmest summer temperatures); and Wales and the south-west of England are the most exposed to the maritime tropical air mass which brings warm moist air


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