The climate of the United Kingdom is classified as mid-latitude oceanic, with warm summers, cool winters, and plentiful precipitation. Northern Ireland, Wales, and western parts of England and Scotland generally experience the mildest, wettest, and windiest conditions, while eastern areas are drier, cooler, and less windy. Northern regions are generally cooler and wetter. Different air masses influence different parts of the country, bringing either cool moist air or warm dry air depending on location.

1. Climate of the United
Kingdom

2. The climate of the United Kingdom is
classified as a mid-latitude oceanic climate
- warm summers
- cool winters
- plentiful precipitation (=осадки)
However some parts of East & South-East
England actually have a semi-arid climate
(=полузасушливый климат)

3. The Country's Climate
Northerly Latitude
(=северная широта)
Close Proximity (=близость) to
the Atlantic Ocean
Warming of the Surrounding
Waters by the Gulf Stream

4. Northern Ireland, Wales and western parts of
England and Scotland are generally
- the mildest
- the wettest
- the windiest
regions of the UK

5. Eastern areas are
- drier
- cooler
- less windy
Northern areas are generally
- cooler
- wetter

6. Northern Ireland and the west of Scotland
the maritime (=морской) polar air mass
cool moist (=сырой; влажный) air

7. the east of Scotland and north-east England
the continental polar air mass
cold dry air

8. the south and south-east of England
the continental tropical air mass
warm dry air

9. Wales and the south-west of England
the maritime tropical air mass
warm moist air

10. Wales and the south-west of England
the maritime tropical air mass
warm moist air