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<hide>THE WEATHER IN BRITAIN

The weather seems to be everybody's favourite topic of conversation in Britain. This is not because the weather is particularly exciting, or even because people are particularly interested in it, but people have to talk about something and the weather serves as a convenient subject.
The main thing to say about the weather in Britain is that it is unpredictable. For some people this makes it interesting, for others it makes it irritating but certainly you can never tell with certainty from one day to the next what the weather is going to be like. Every morning when you wake up is a glorious surprise - especially if you had planned to go to the seaside and find it is pouring with rain or snowing. There are weather forecasts on the radio and TV - and in the newspapers - but on the whole nobody believes them.
Because British weather is unpredictable, some visitors get quite the wrong impression. Some people spend two weeks in Britain in the middle of a heatwave. They come back equipped with shorts and suncream to find it never stops raining and the temperature never rises above ten degrees. Usually though, the weather is changeable. You have to be an optimist to like British weather
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