Hey, everyone and welcome back to another episode of the
understandable English podcast. And today, we are going to be
answering the very important question.
Does it always rain in the UK, is the weather always so bad,
like people say, it is maybe in movies.
You see all the time it is closed.
Eddie gray rainy at the weather is terrible.
So today I want to talk about that and answer the question
once. And for all we are going to look
at some statistics, some facts, about how much it actually rains
in the UK, and I will give you my own experience to.
So I You enjoy to start with one of the most common opening lines
in a British conversation is 0. What's the weather going to be
like later or tomorrow or a comment about the wherever
saying the Weber's Grid? It's horrible, it's rainy, it's
lovely. And why is that?
It's simply because here in the UK, the climate is varied.
So it is very different all the time and it's very
unpredictable. It's so hard to tell what the
weather is going to be like tomorrow or in the evening and
it can change drastically. So very fast from one extreme to
the next from day to day and between different regions
regions even though it is a very small.
Island were quite small island but the plus side of this is no
matter what whatever you prefer if you don't like it one day,
there's is a very very good chance that you will have
completely different whatever the next day.
And I can tell you straight away that contrary soup despite
popular belief. So what people think it doesn't
ran every day? Day here in the UK, and I'll
explain a little bit more lesser.
Why? That is, and how it actually is
like. So, let's take a look at ho
British however, changes from season to season, and from
region, so area, to area in the UK, we do experience all four
seasons. So with spring summer, autumn
and winter. And the weather dolls change in
all of these Seasons, but it isn't as Extreme as other
countries. For example, we do have seasons
which blend together at the end and the beginning where it's
quite hard to tell. For example, if it's the end of
spring or the start of summer the wherever is pretty much the
same. So that means As well.
We have quite an unexpected or unpredictable weather pattern in
Seasons. It isn't the same every year.
So that means that sometimes we get a warm or bright sunny day
in February, or we can get a cold day with freezing rain in
the middle of summer. So always expect anything when
you To the UK. Not surely winter is the coldest
month in the UK with temperatures often dropping
below zero degrees Celsius. But to be honest, it's quite
rare. When we get temperatures during
the daytime, at minus 4 or minus 5, or even - to your - free most
of the time in Winter, the weather.
It's at a rind, a comfortable anywhere in between 0 and maybe
56 degrees. But what is bad about?
The British winter isn't the cold because it isn't very cold.
I mean there are some days in Winter we have had plus tan or
plus eight, plus nine, four weeks, the bad part is the windy
and wet. Waiver y ver, I can speak
whatever especially for those who live in the Northern.
So the North, or the West parts of the UK.
And that means you have awful wind and rain and it the wind
can blow the rain. So the wetness into your fears
and it's not very nice. So now we move towards Spring,
so mark March April and May the temperatures begin to rise and
the Sun that we've all been waiting on.
Begins to start spring in the UK is known for its beautiful
flowers, coming to life right across the country.
Although it's not so cold like winter.
It's not quite the time for putting on your shorts and
t-shirts and wearing sunglasses. Sometimes we're quite Lucky and
we can have quite a calm dry period of time, but a lot of the
time spring can be quite wet and windy, it can be as cold as plus
free degrees in March or even as hot as plus 30 degrees in May in
some areas of the UK. So you can see what I mean about
the lever being quite Unpredictable each year, an eye
for summer. So June, July and August
British, people, love summer. It's the one time in the year
where we usually get warmer temperatures and less rien.
I say usually, because sometimes we can get a pretty bad summer.
It's different every year. So in some areas of the UK, the
temperatures reach up to plus 32 degrees in the summer and that's
pretty hot. The average summer temperature
in London is around plus 21 when it's a good year.
So let's quite high for us in the UK for an average
temperature. July is usually the warmest
month of the year, but June is the sunniest.
And the total amount of rainy days changes year to year.
Sometimes we have just a few days of rain and others.
Every years we have weeks of chars under in.
So it's very hard to know what it's going to be like each year
but sometimes we get what we call an anticyclone or a heat
wave and this gives Us a long period of hot weather.
And last year, we had one in the UK and even in some areas of
London, they experienced plus 40 degrees which is pretty crazy
when you think about it for a country that is so green and wet
and has a lots of plants and trees.
Okay, and our final season Autumn.
So September, October, November. Usually, we start to see the
leaves turning golden and the night's getting shorter.
It's a sign that things are moving from Summer to Winter.
This is the season that has the biggest change.
In weather conditions? It is so unpredictable it.
Can sometimes be quite So feel like summer but at other times
it can very quickly get cold, sometimes we get snow, sometimes
we don't, it's different. Every year in Autumn, the
average London temperature is around.
Plus the average Autumn temperature is around 2 plus 16
degrees, which drops to around plus 10 in November.
Or so, you'll still need to make sure you bring a plenty of warm
cloves do night. Ooh, are very important
question. I've waited until the end of the
podcast, answer it completely and that is, does it always rain
in the UK and it's better asked, as I much.
Does it rain in the UK? And I can tell you that
According to the UK Met Office. So the people who study, the
wherever there is on average, 106.5 days of rain a year in
London. And this even includes a small
amounts of rain, quite small amounts.
So that means that 71 percent of the days in a year in London
have no rain on average. H.
So there you go. Most of the time in London and
the south of England, it doesn't rain.
But of course. The UK is more than London.
The North and the West does have a lot more rain with Scotland.
For example, having an average in other in parts of other than
the mountains. So the highlands of 175 days
Year, which is a lot more than London.
But if we compare that even with Belfast, which is my home City
and it is right beside the sea and it gets 194 days of rain a
year, which is a lot so you can see that.
It isn't so simple. Some parts it rains more than
others but the Aryan often only lasts for a very short time,
although that says in Belfast, for example, 194 days, it can be
a day where it rains for 10 minutes or 30 minutes and then
it stops. And in our later, the Sun comes
out and it's a beautiful day, the weather changes so fast here
and if you come to visit the UK, make sure that You're prepared
for every type of lever, except for extremely cold, whatever,
our climate is very moderate. So it's not very hot and it's
not very cold, but always be prepared for wind and rain
because that's something, which will probably never change.
I hope you enjoyed this podcast and have a wonderful day and
rest of the week. You and I will see you guys in
the next episode. Goodbye.