Climate in Scotland

The climate in Scotland is also determined by the direction in which the Scottish mountains and is, in addition to the strong Southwest winds, strongly influenced by the Atlantic Ocean.

Which makes the winters in the lower parts for relatively soft temperatures. It gets colder in the winter on the High Plains, in the mountains and on the northern coasts. The average temperature In January is between 3-5 ° c and below freezing at night and the higher mountains remain months covered in snow.

The summers are generally pretty cool: the average temperature in the month of July is 13-15 ° c, but this often runs in the afternoon on to above 20 ° c. It is rarely warmer than 24 ° c. Most rain falls in the Western mountainous areas, where the Southwest winds carry very moist air from the Atlantic Ocean. There is average around 2500 mm per year.

In particular the Outer Hebrides (Outer Hebrides or Western Isles ') are often plagued by depressions with storm winds and numerous rain showers. On the East Coast it rains considerably less, especially in the months of May and June.

Remarkably, the Edinburgh capital has less rain each year than The Bilt (676 mm against 763 mm). The wettest months are July through november, and also January is usually wet. ==Climate on the Islands[ Edit] == Coll and Tiree are located to the West of the Isle of Mull in the open Atlantic Ocean and are known as the sunniest islands of Great Britain.

On one island can also all kinds of differences. So falls into the western part of Rùm, one of the islands of the inner Hebrides, monthly average 110 mm precipitation, while in Kinloch, just 8 kilometres further East, no less than 230 mm per month.

By the Gulf stream the climate is relatively mild and the island of Arran grow indoor palm trees here and there.