Why is britain rainy

Our winter is characterised by unsettled, windy and wet weather — which is worse for those living in the Northern and Western parts of the UK. The coldest month of the year in the UK is January, and December sees the least sunshine. Spring is well-known in the UK for its beautiful meadows of spring flowers and blooming, colourful spring garden and is a great time to visit. On average in the UK, July is the warmest month of the year but June is the sunniest.

This is the season with the biggest range of weather conditions — September and October can sometimes feel summery but can equally get pretty chilly. During the autumn equinox, a day and night are almost equal length of roughly 12 hours each due to the sun shining directly on the equator.

This may seem like a silly question for an outdoors product, but yes you can! But if it rains regually, then your lawn is clean. The short answer is Yes it can. We all know decking can be like an ice rink when wet. Wonderlawn were the first artificial grass company in the UK to use specially shaped grass fibres. These weather systems usually move from west to east across the UK and as they do so the amount of rainfall they deposit reduces.

This is because the mountains of the northern and western UK force the prevailing westerly winds to rise, which cools the air and consequently enhances the formation of cloud and rain in these locations this is known as orographic enhancement.

Of course, frontal and orographic rainfall are not the only rainfall mechanisms, but they are the most common in the UK. How much does it rain in the UK?

Summer temperatures hit near-record breaking highs, and with soaring temperatures came drought. With the UK getting only about half its expected summer rainfall, water resources deteriorated rapidly. Major rivers in England, Scotland, and Wales hit record lows, and reservoir levels dropped significantly.

This brought fears for the domestic water supply as a thirsty nation turned on the taps to keep cool. While some water authorities were boosting supplies by an extra 87 million litres a day, consumers in some regions were drawing an extra half a billion litres: water restrictions in England were only narrowly averted. Soils dried out, damaging crops; drowned villages emerged from reservoirs; and the outlines of long-lost buildings appeared on the landscape like invisible ink.

A little over 18 months later and the UK was suffering from too much water. Soon, major rivers were recording their highest levels ever, and barriers buckled under the intense weight of water that coursed through flood defences at tons per second. Climate change means storms are becoming noticeably more frequent and intense. In the last 20 years, severe flooding has become more common in Britain, but February was one of the worst.