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Hey, everyone and welcome back 
to another episode of the 

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understandable English podcast. 
And today, we are going to be 

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answering the very important 
question. 

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Does it always rain in the UK, 
is the weather always so bad, 

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like people say, it is maybe in 
movies. 

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You see all the time it is 
closed. 

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Eddie gray rainy at the weather 
is terrible. 

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So today I want to talk about 
that and answer the question 

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once. 
And for all we are going to look

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at some statistics, some facts, 
about how much it actually rains

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in the UK, and I will give you 
my own experience to. 

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So I You enjoy to start with one
of the most common opening lines

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in a British conversation is 0. 
What's the weather going to be 

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like later or tomorrow or a 
comment about the wherever 

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saying the Weber's Grid? 
It's horrible, it's rainy, it's 

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lovely. 
And why is that? 

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It's simply because here in the 
UK, the climate is varied. 

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So it is very different all the 
time and it's very 

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unpredictable. 
It's so hard to tell what the 

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weather is going to be like 
tomorrow or in the evening and 

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it can change drastically. 
So very fast from one extreme to

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the next from day to day and 
between different regions 

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regions even though it is a very
small. 

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Island were quite small island 
but the plus side of this is no 

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matter what whatever you prefer 
if you don't like it one day, 

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there's is a very very good 
chance that you will have 

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completely different whatever 
the next day. 

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And I can tell you straight away
that contrary soup despite 

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popular belief. 
So what people think it doesn't 

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ran every day? 
Day here in the UK, and I'll 

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explain a little bit more 
lesser. 

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Why? 
That is, and how it actually is 

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like. 
So, let's take a look at ho 

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British however, changes from 
season to season, and from 

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region, so area, to area in the 
UK, we do experience all four 

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seasons. 
So with spring summer, autumn 

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and winter. 
And the weather dolls change in 

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all of these Seasons, but it 
isn't as Extreme as other 

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countries. 
For example, we do have seasons 

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which blend together at the end 
and the beginning where it's 

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quite hard to tell. 
For example, if it's the end of 

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spring or the start of summer 
the wherever is pretty much the 

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same. 
So that means As well. 

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We have quite an unexpected or 
unpredictable weather pattern in

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Seasons. 
It isn't the same every year. 

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So that means that sometimes we 
get a warm or bright sunny day 

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in February, or we can get a 
cold day with freezing rain in 

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the middle of summer. 
So always expect anything when 

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you To the UK. 
Not surely winter is the coldest

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month in the UK with 
temperatures often dropping 

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below zero degrees Celsius. 
But to be honest, it's quite 

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rare. 
When we get temperatures during 

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the daytime, at minus 4 or minus
5, or even - to your - free most

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of the time in Winter, the 
weather. 

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It's at a rind, a comfortable 
anywhere in between 0 and maybe 

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56 degrees. 
But what is bad about? 

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The British winter isn't the 
cold because it isn't very cold.

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I mean there are some days in 
Winter we have had plus tan or 

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plus eight, plus nine, four 
weeks, the bad part is the windy

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and wet. 
Waiver y ver, I can speak 

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whatever especially for those 
who live in the Northern. 

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So the North, or the West parts 
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And that means you have awful 
wind and rain and it the wind 

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can blow the rain. 
So the wetness into your fears 

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and it's not very nice. 
So now we move towards Spring, 

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so mark March April and May the 
temperatures begin to rise and 

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the Sun that we've all been 
waiting on. 

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Begins to start spring in the UK
is known for its beautiful 

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flowers, coming to life right 
across the country. 

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Although it's not so cold like 
winter. 

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It's not quite the time for 
putting on your shorts and 

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t-shirts and wearing sunglasses.
Sometimes we're quite Lucky and 

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we can have quite a calm dry 
period of time, but a lot of the

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time spring can be quite wet and
windy, it can be as cold as plus

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free degrees in March or even as
hot as plus 30 degrees in May in

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some areas of the UK. 
So you can see what I mean about

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the lever being quite 
Unpredictable each year, an eye 

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for summer. 
So June, July and August 

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British, people, love summer. 
It's the one time in the year 

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where we usually get warmer 
temperatures and less rien. 

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I say usually, because sometimes
we can get a pretty bad summer. 

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It's different every year. 
So in some areas of the UK, the 

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temperatures reach up to plus 32
degrees in the summer and that's

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pretty hot. 
The average summer temperature 

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in London is around plus 21 when
it's a good year. 

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So let's quite high for us in 
the UK for an average 

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temperature. 
July is usually the warmest 

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month of the year, but June is 
the sunniest. 

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And the total amount of rainy 
days changes year to year. 

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Sometimes we have just a few 
days of rain and others. 

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Every years we have weeks of 
chars under in. 

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So it's very hard to know what 
it's going to be like each year 

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but sometimes we get what we 
call an anticyclone or a heat 

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wave and this gives Us a long 
period of hot weather. 

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And last year, we had one in the
UK and even in some areas of 

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London, they experienced plus 40
degrees which is pretty crazy 

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when you think about it for a 
country that is so green and wet

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and has a lots of plants and 
trees. 

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Okay, and our final season 
Autumn. 

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So September, October, November.
Usually, we start to see the 

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leaves turning golden and the 
night's getting shorter. 

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It's a sign that things are 
moving from Summer to Winter. 

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This is the season that has the 
biggest change. 

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In weather conditions? 
It is so unpredictable it. 

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Can sometimes be quite So feel 
like summer but at other times 

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it can very quickly get cold, 
sometimes we get snow, sometimes

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we don't, it's different. 
Every year in Autumn, the 

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average London temperature is 
around. 

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Plus the average Autumn 
temperature is around 2 plus 16 

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degrees, which drops to around 
plus 10 in November. 

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Or so, you'll still need to make
sure you bring a plenty of warm 

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cloves do night. 
Ooh, are very important 

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question. 
I've waited until the end of the

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podcast, answer it completely 
and that is, does it always rain

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in the UK and it's better asked,
as I much. 

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Does it rain in the UK? 
And I can tell you that 

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According to the UK Met Office. 
So the people who study, the 

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wherever there is on average, 
106.5 days of rain a year in 

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London. 
And this even includes a small 

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amounts of rain, quite small 
amounts. 

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So that means that 71 percent of
the days in a year in London 

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have no rain on average. 
H. 

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So there you go. 
Most of the time in London and 

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the south of England, it doesn't
rain. 

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But of course. 
The UK is more than London. 

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The North and the West does have
a lot more rain with Scotland. 

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For example, having an average 
in other in parts of other than 

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the mountains. 
So the highlands of 175 days 

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Year, which is a lot more than 
London. 

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But if we compare that even with
Belfast, which is my home City 

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and it is right beside the sea 
and it gets 194 days of rain a 

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year, which is a lot so you can 
see that. 

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It isn't so simple. 
Some parts it rains more than 

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others but the Aryan often only 
lasts for a very short time, 

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although that says in Belfast, 
for example, 194 days, it can be

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a day where it rains for 10 
minutes or 30 minutes and then 

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it stops. 
And in our later, the Sun comes 

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out and it's a beautiful day, 
the weather changes so fast here

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and if you come to visit the UK,
make sure that You're prepared 

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for every type of lever, except 
for extremely cold, whatever, 

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our climate is very moderate. 
So it's not very hot and it's 

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not very cold, but always be 
prepared for wind and rain 

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because that's something, which 
will probably never change. 

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I hope you enjoyed this podcast 
and have a wonderful day and 

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rest of the week. 
You and I will see you guys in 

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the next episode. 
Goodbye.