Britain's Climate
1 Everyone is happy in the summer, when it's hot and sunny. Sunshine is also important for our health. When it's hot say it's baking or boiling or even But sometimes the temperature can get too high, over 32 c (degrees Celsius) or 90 F (degree Fahrenheit). Then, people are not so happy, especially if it continues for a few days, That's what we call a heat-wave. If the air is dry, it's not so bad, but if the air is humid and heavy it's not very nice.
2. In Britain, you will not be surprised to hear, we can get quite a lot of rain. Of course, it doesn't rain all the time in Britain. There isn't a monsoon, or rainy season! But we get enough rain to have different vocabulary for it. If the rain is very light, we say, it's just you go out without an umbrella, you'll get a bit wet. If it is raining very heavily, we say it's pouring, and without an umbrella, you'll get completely soaked. When TV or radio weather forecasters talks about "showers they mean short periods of light rain, stopping and starting again. After a rainstorm, there is sometimes a beautiful rainbow in the sky.
3. What should you do if you're out for a walk in the country and you get caught in a thunderstorm? Don't stand under a tree: lightning often strikes trees. Inside a car is safer. When it rains too much or for too long, rivers fill up a there are floods. If it doesn't rain at all for a long time, there is a drought. Both situations are very dangerous.
4.Sometimes, the air becomes so heavy with water that we can see it if this happens in the sky,we call these groups of very small drops of water clouds. If it happens down near we call it mist. If a mist is very heavy, and the ground, for example, in the morning dangerous for driving, we call it fog. If the fog is produced by air pollution from factory chimneys, cars and so on, we have a special word for it: smog smoke fog).
5. In Oxford and other towns in the south of England, winters are normally quite mild stick at around freezing point (0"C or 32 F). In Oxford, there is Temperatures may e if any now, although black ice on roads is dangerously common. So for winter sports like most people go north, to the highlands of Scotland, example, where there may be snow r several months, Conditions can be very dangerous for climbers in the mountains, with severe snow storms, and even blizzards. Luckily, avalanches are much less common than in the Alps in Europe.
6. British weather is very changeable. A few days of warm sunshine at the end of winter can trick plants o out new leaves again, then, beautiful morning dew the leaves freezes and in the morning the plants covered with white frost, a sudden shower of hailstones can kill the new plants coming up.
7. In Britain, sandstorms never happen, because the climat is too humid so there are deserts. The weather can s common especially during t winter months and occasionally there can be hurricanes. (The last hurricane in of damage.) Apparently, there are more tornadoes or twisters, in the UK than there are in the USA