Why is England’s climate like it is ?

Question

Please explain thoroughly

Answer 1

because we get so many air masses from all around the world meeting at us, causing things like depressions and etc

Answer 2

Because of the Gulf Stream! without it we would be even colder

Answer 3

what do you mean exactly about the question please give some details

Answer 4

Seriously. I donot know, call England and ask.

Why is American weather the way it is? I am sorry But I am no astrologer or weather perfectionist.

Answer 5

We live on an island on the edge of the Atlantic ocean. When the weather comes in from there we are normally in trouble because it drops our temperature rapidly

Answer 6

surrounded by water,subject to warm and cold weather changes which would make humidity at times very bad,hence the fallacy English people are a bit stuffy.

Answer 7

Thoroughly? Not enough space to type here.

Roughly? We are an island on the edge of a big ocean that has warm currents running towards us. That's why we don't get icebergs like the coast of Canada which is on the same latitude as us.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_cl...

"The British Isles experiences a typically maritime climate, with prevailing south-westerly winds from the Atlantic Ocean. The annual average temperature range in the UK is only about 10 °C. Although the west coast of Alaska experiences a maritime climate, the absence of an equally significant warm Pacific current in the upper-mid latitudes means that these regions are generally colder in winter, with more precipitation falling as snow."

Answer 8

It's what is called a maritime climate.

Air generally circulates around the world from west to east, so with Britain being on the west side of a large continent the tendency is for moist oceanic air to cross the country.  Successions of low pressure systems which build up in the margins between warm equatorial air and cold polar air over the oceans cross the country, bringing rain.

In summer though, stationary high pressure tends to build up over central continental Europe, and this blocks the flow of oceanic air over Britain, leading to finer, more stable weather.  

So, in winter the weather sytems are primarily low pressure. In summer, primarily high.

The only trouble is that things never stay stable for long.  When they do, even in summer, the flow of air from the ocean tends to bring in the wet weather sytsems. This means we are always prone to a changeable weather.

How's that?