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A map of Köppen climate types in Wales. The climate of Wales refers to the weather conditions prevailing in Wales in general or over a long period.. Wales has warmer temperatures throughout the year than Northern Ireland and Scotland and has milder winter minima than England, but cooler winter maxima than Northern Ireland.
Wales has warmer temperatures throughout the year than Northern Ireland and Scotland and has milder winter minima than England, but cooler winter maxima than Northern Ireland. Wales is wetter throughout the year than Northern Ireland and England, but has fewer rainy days than Northern Ireland; meaning that rainfall tends to be more intense.
Wales has a maritime climate, the predominant winds being southwesterlies and westerlies blowing in from the Atlantic Ocean. This means that the weather in Wales is in general mild, cloudy, wet and windy. The country's wide geographic variations cause localised differences in amounts of sunshine, rainfall and temperature.
gov.wales /huw-irranca-davies-ms The Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change ( Welsh : Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd ) is a member of the Cabinet in the Welsh Government . The current officeholder is Huw Irranca-Davies since March 2024.
Llanrwst floods in 2015. Climate change is a factor during the assessment for future developments in Wales since December 2021. Wales is the first country in the UK where developers must consider future flood risk due or coastal erosion due to global warming. 11.3% of land in Wales will be at risk from flooding in the future, up from 9.86% as previously projected.
Climate change in Wales (2 P) M. Welsh meteorologists (4 P) Pages in category "Climate of Wales" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Cardiff experiences less rainfall than Wales as a whole. Rain falls in Cardiff on 146 days during an average year, with total annual rainfall of 1,111.7 millimetres (43.77 in). Monthly rainfall pattern shows that from September to January average monthly rainfall in Cardiff exceeded 100 millimetres (3.9 in) each month, the wettest month being ...
Capel Curig is one of the wettest places in the UK and the wettest in Wales. Record high temperatures during February 2019 were higher than in the average summer: on 25 February 2019, Capel Curig recorded its warmest February day on record, with a temperature of 17.5 °C (63.5 °F).