CLIMATE IN UNITED KINGDOM AND IN ITALY
What is the climate?
The climate is the whole of the normal and abnormal meteorology conditions that distinguish an area in a deliberate period (temperature, pressure, humidity, precipitation, winds, ). The makers that influence the climate are lots: the latitude (the distance, measured in degree, of a place from the Equator), the altitude (in normal conditions, in summer, the temperature decreases of 0,56°c for each 100 m but, in winter, the difference is, usually, lower), the nearness from the sea (the rainfall are higher and the thermal excursions are lower), from the rivers (in winter its more wet and cold; in summer its a bit less hot) and from the lakes (if it doesnt freeze in winter, the temperature is higher but, if it freeze, the temperature is more low). Moreover, another maker that influences the weather of a place, is the nearness of a mountain. In fact, it can reduce or decrease the quantity of precipitation or can make a place hotter or colder.
The study of climate and weather is very important also to program what you can do during day and, more important thing, to foresee natural catastrophes and the trend of climate.
The climate in the United Kingdom
In United Kingdom the climate is influenced by the movement of all the major air masses, including maritime tropical, maritime polar, maritime Arctic, continental polar and continental tropical. The UK, residing in the mid-lititudes, lies in the part of hair mass convergence between warm tropical airflow and cold polar airflow. At this convergence zone, the lighter warm air rises over the heavier cold air, producing the typical weather phenomena associated with this regime, fronts, depressions and rain. As a consequence, the UK climate is relatively mild for its altitude, since it is influenced by Gulf Stream. This stream is a warm ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and travels north-east across the Atlantic. For this reason Edinburg, for example, that is 56 degrees north
Average wintertime surface temperature in Britain
of the equator, the same latitude of Moscow, have a climate much milder.
Although the British Isles makes up only a relatively geographical area, differences in climate across the region do exist. The climate of the western half of the British Isles is dominated by maritime tropical and polar air, whilst the east area climate is often influenced by more continental regimes. The climate of the United Kingdom can be divided into 4 quarters.
These difference of quantity of precipitation is motivated by the greater influence of maritime air in the western half of Britain.
Annual rainfall
The climate in Italy
The climate of Italy can be divided in 8 different types:
So, there are different types of climate in Italy and they are influenced by the sea and the Alps. The north part has colder winters than British winters (except east Scotland) and warmer summers. The others areas have, generally, higher temperatures. The annual rainfall is, on average, lower.