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What is the foehn effect? In simple terms, this is a change from wet and cold conditions one side of a mountain, to warmer and drier conditions on the other (leeward) side.  Foehn winds (sometimes written "Föhn") are common in mountainous regions, regularly impacting the lives of their residents

but can on the cool side in spring. Summer Summer weather starts early in Gran Canaria and you can enjoy average temperatures of more than 25 °C from June until October. Even out of this long peak season, the climate remains warm and mild. There’s little rainfall in the summer, so the chances

and popular with tourists. There is an average of 5 to 10 hours of sunshine in Crete in the spring and autumn seasons. Winter The winter in Crete is mild but wet and blustery. The average of 74 to 92mm of rainfall in the winter mean that you are highly likely to experience some sort of participation

winter are the wettest seasons, especially from October to January, and spring and early summer is normally the driest part of the year, especially from April to June. The average monthly rainfall for 4 sites is shown below. The numbers of days with rainfall totals of 1 mm or more ('wet days') tend

winter are the wettest seasons, especially from October to January, and spring and early summer is normally the driest part of the year, especially from April to June. The average monthly rainfall for 4 sites is shown below. The numbers of days with rainfall totals of 1 mm or more ('wet days') tend

to be drier and cooler seasons wetter. This also means that any correlations found between crop yields and either of these variables are not mutually exclusive, and so multivariate correlation will be explored in Section 3.5. Figure 4: Scatter plot of WFDEI JAS season total precipitation against

: “The Easter period will bring a variety of Spring weather from sunshine and showers, to more prolonged cloudy and wet conditions, along with some snow in the north: chiefly over the hills. So, there will be opportunities to get outside and enjoy the weekend, and you can use the rainfall radar

on from a largely wet June, northern England and the Midlands have now received more than the season’s usual rainfall, with August still to go. Tim Legg, of the Met Office’s National Climate Information Centre, said: “With an all-time temperature record it would be easy to assume that this summer

is gained. A climate of a particular place is often described in seasonal periods (e.g. summer/ winter or rainy/ dry season) over the cycle of the year. The climate can also naturally vary between different years due to the process of Earth system cycles, especially those associated with large

this? Will it change the weather we experience in the UK? If so, what sort of changes could we see? And how could that change our lives? How will climate change affect the UK? Across the UK, we expect to see: Warmer and wetter winters Hotter and drier summers More frequent and intense weather extremes