Main question

What factors affect the climate of the United Kingdom?

• Resource A

  Table 1:

  
  
  

  Number on the map	Weather Station	Period	Maximum Temperature (°C)	Minimum Temperature (°C)
  1	Wick	Annual Mean	10.8	5.1
  2	Mylnefield	Annual Mean	12.4	5.3
  3	Stockton on Tees	Annual Mean	13.1	5.2
  4	Sutton Bonnington	Annual Mean	13.9	6.1
  5	Solent	Annual Mean	14.5	8.2

  
  
  

  Table 2:

  
  
  

  Number on the map	Weather Station	Period	Maximum Temperature (°C)	Minimum Temperature (°C)
  6	Gogerddan	January	8.1	2.5
  		July	19.4	12.4
  		Annual Mean	13.5	6.7
  7	Coleshill	January	6.9	1.4
  		July	21.8	11.8
  		Annual Mean	13.8	6.1
  8	Scole	January	6.9	1.3
  		July	22.6	11.8
  		Annual Mean	14.4	6.1

• Resource B

  
  
  

  Location of Weather Stations in Resource A.

  
  
  
  
  

• Resource C

  
  
  

  Location on map	Station	Altitude (metres)	Rainfall (mm)	Rain days (>1mm)
  A	Penycwm	102	1138.4	151.4
  B	Tredegar	324	1674.2	166.5
  C	Ross on Wye	41	733.5	116.9

  
  
  

  Wales’s relief and the location of the weather stations.

  
  
  
  
  

  Source - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wales_relief_location_map.jpg - Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right. Source Ordnance Survey OpenData - This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

• Resource D

  
  
  

  12 weather stations chosen at random.

  
  
  

  Station	Altitude (metres)	Mean Annual Temperature (°C)	Frost days	Rainfall (mm)	Rain days (>1 mm)
  Valley	10	10.5	20	841	143
  Carmarthen	26	10.1	49	1323	157
  Saint Athan	49	10.6	27	999	145
  Trawsgoed	63	9.9	52	1217	171
  Rhyl	77	10.2	31	814	146
  Aberdaron	95	10.4	7	874	142
  Aberporth	133	9.9	19	888	146
  Bala	163	8.9	64	1295	166
  Cwmystradllyn	204	9.4	36	1945	195
  Capel Curig	216	9.0	50	2612	200
  Sennybridge	307	8.2	65	1551	181
  Vyrnwy	360	8.3	60	1635	182