UK environmental challenges
- Created by: brodie cook
- Created on: 23-01-19 13:23
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- UK environmental challenges
- what affects the weather in the UK
- weather
- the day-to-day conditions of the atmosphere for example temperature, rainfall and wind direction
- climate
- the average weather conditions calculated over a 30-year period
- prevailing winds
- The most frequent, or common, wind direction.
- winds blow from this direction most of the time
- they travel over the warm Atlantic ocean this explains for the moderate temperatures and high rainfall
- The most frequent, or common, wind direction.
- air mass
- a large body of air that transfers condition of heat and moisture
- north Atlantic drift
- a warm ocean current which is generated in the Caribbean and transfers to the British isles
- the north Atlantic drift explains why the western side of the UK doesn't experience serve winter weather
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- what affects the weather in the UK
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