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An image of the Gulf Stream's path and its related branches The average number of days per year with precipitation The average amount of sunshine yearly (hours). The climate of western Europe is strongly conditioned by the Gulf Stream, which keeps mild air (for the latitude) over Northwestern Europe in the winter months, especially in Ireland, the United Kingdom and coastal Norway.
The basic climate of the UK annually is wet and cool in winter, spring, and autumn with frequent cloudy skies, and drier and cool to mild in summer. The climate in the United Kingdom is defined as a humid temperate oceanic climate, or Cfb on the Köppen climate classification system, a classification it shares with most of north-west Europe. [1]
The cyclone brought tragedy, claiming 110 lives (including 88 in France alone) and causing more than €15 billion in damages, earning the unfortunate distinction of being the costliest European windstorm on record. Remarkably, Cyclone Lothar was the second in a series of devastating European windstorms that struck in December 1999.
The total solar eclipse is just days away and the cloud cover forecast is looking grim for some regions, but there’s still hope because not all cloudy skies are the same. Why a cloudy forecast ...
The cloud cover is correlated to the sunshine duration as the least cloudy locales are the sunniest ones while the cloudiest areas are the least sunny places, as clouds can block sunlight, especially at sunrise and sunset where sunlight is already limited. Partial cloud cover over the North Atlantic Ocean. Complete cloud coverage over France
For a huge chunk of the U.S., you may have thought it couldn’t get much colder during the last month, but Earth as a whole just experienced its warmest January on record, according to a new ...
Germany’s former summer haven for Europe’s Belle Époque royals, politicians and writers, Baden-Baden arguably has even more appeal in fall, with epic views of the surrounding Rhine Valley and ...
Continental climates occur mostly in the Northern Hemisphere due to the large landmasses found there. Most of northeastern China, eastern and southeastern Europe, much of Russia south of the Arctic Circle, central and southeastern Canada, and the central and northeastern United States have this type of climate. [1]