What’s with this weather?

Here in Britain, we always complain about our weather! It’s rarely sunny here, aside from in the peaks of summer (traditionally July and August when the school’s break up for their summer holidays) and even when it is sunny, we will quite often complain that it’s too hot!

Here in the UK, many different types of weather can be experienced in the space of 1 day (which I’m sure you will have noticed by now). It can be pouring with rain one minute and then the clouds will break all of a sudden and there might not be a single cloud in sight! There are many geographical reasons for this which I will not bore you with here (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_the_United_Kingdom if you would like to read more about this!).

The climate of the UK means that it only really gets hot during the summer months from June to August and so when it is hot you may notice that people will often flock to the beaches on the coast all around the UK, whether it’s Blackpool or Southport here in the North of England to Brighton or even Cornwall on the south coast of England!

Even within the UK itself there are large variations with our weather from those in the south having a hot weather a lot more than those in northern Scotland who will be lucky to experience sun on any day of the year!

Moreover because these summer months are usually the only time of the year that families will have chance to go on holiday (owing to their children being in school the rest of the time) it seems that most of us with children will tend to go abroad over these summer months (Spain tends to be a popular destination!) meaning that they miss a lot of the warm weather anyway!

This means that idea of a UK holiday outside of these months is limited to a rainy holiday in a caravan in Wales!

What do you think of the weather here in the UK? What’s the weather like in your home country?