Weather and the Countryside Part 1 (From Worcester News)

Weather and the Countryside Part 1

12:51pm Monday 16th June 2008 in News By Paul Damari

Our climate is extremely varied and fickle across the British Isles but it is this variability which makes our weather one of the best in the world.

The four seasons bring us wonderful changes in our weather with each season being unique and interesting. Although I tend to love the spring when usually Mother Nature brings everything back into tune with fresh lush light green growth and the scented air from wild flower meadows, the other three seasons are also just as fabulous in their own right. If you study the climate over a long period of time, you will find that one seasons weather can influence the next and so on. By summer the lush light green foliage turns to a harsher darker green. The spring flowers fade as the summer flowers take over creating a lovely canopy of colour. Then autumn arrives, the days grow shorter, the nights colder and longer, less sunlight is on offer, the foliage takes on a wonderful colouration, before softly gliding to the forest floor creating a mantle of leaves. Through the long period of winter the deciduous trees remain bare and lifeless, the countryside looks barren. Then the longer warmer days arrive and everything springs back into life the annual cycle repeated. Next Week......Weather and the Countryside Part 2. The answer to last weeks question: Inland.This weeks question: What trees drop their foliage during winter?

A/ Coniferous.B/ Deciduous.Glossary:

Depression: A region of low atmospheric pressure also called a low or cyclone. Depressions usually bring low cloud and also precipitation.Weather for coming week Monday 16th June-Friday 20th June.An active low pressure system will bring wet windy conditions Tuesday Night and throughout Wednesday with between 10 and 18 mm of rainfall.Monday and Day time Tuesday will bring dry sunny spells and just the odd shower with many spots set fair.Thursday and Friday back to sunshine and just a few showers with long dry spells between.Winds west to south-west light to moderate but strong and gusting 35 mph Tuesday Night and Wednesday.Maximum temperature 15-20c 59-68f.Minimum temperature 10-12c 50-54f. Last Week's Observations (Monday-Sunday)Highest day temperature..............26.7c 81f on Monday 9th June.Lowest night temperature..............4.4c 39f on Thursday 12th June.Wettest day.....................................4.4 mm on Wednesday 11th June.