English Weather - The Seasons
Lets just explain something first of all, it does NOT rain every day in England or in the rest of the UK! However, it is always advisable to bring some type of waterproof clothing and keep yourself prepared!
We never know what the weather will be like from one day to the other. It can be sunny one day and rainy the next. As England has such a variable climate changing from day to day, it is difficult to predict the weather. In general we have warm summers and cool winters. Our summers are cooler than those in other countries, but the winters are milder.
Spring
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Spring time in England is from March until May and is all about new life springing up after the harsh conditions of winter. Within Spring the temperature within England usually starts to get warmer and the days start to get longer. This brings with it plants shooting up all over the country, trees regaining their leaves and animals giving birth. However, spring is often still quite wet and windy in Britain. (So don’t crack out the sunglasses and flip flops too early!)
Summer
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Summer within England starts in June and ends in August and theory should be hot and dry. It usually does have hot spells during Summer but also still rains quite a lot. On hot days, temperatures can reach 30oC, though not much higher, and the British public make the most of it. People swarm to beaches, sit out in parks and generally revel in the hot temperatures (remember your sun cream!). This is matched by the increased hours of daylight during the summer time, which reached almost 17 hours in London in mid June.
Autumn
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Autumn marks the gradual change from summer to winter and is probably the season with the biggest range in weather conditions. Septembers and even Octobers in England can often still be summery, recently even recording higher temperatures than in August. Equally, Novembers can be very cold, and the UK sometimes even experiences widespread snow fall (like in 2010). In general, it is usually quite wet and windy in autumn though it is so variable that one year after another, autumns can seem like different seasons.
Winter
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Winter is the coldest months in England, running roughly from December to February (although November can often suffer very wintry conditions too). Temperatures often get as low as freezing point (0oC), though not too much colder usually. This leads to frost in the mornings, ice on car windscreens and roads, and sometimes snow fall. British winters are usually very wet and windy as well, so make sure you wrap up warm and waterproof. To add to the miserable weather, the hours of daylight are very short during the winter, with days in London getting as short as 8 hours at the end of December.
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