Sunday 20 January 2008

The British Climate

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The British climate is temperate - this means that it does not experience extremes of temperature or rainfall. The climate can be divided into four sections.
In winter, the west is kept warm by the Gulf Stream whilst the east is cooled by air masses from continental Europe. In summer, temperatures are influenced much more by latitude.

These images show surface temperatures for January and July.





The four sectors are as shown here:

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