Seasons

Spring is a very pleasant season. The weather is usually warm, but there are sometimes cold days in spring. Nature awakens in spring. Birds return from the South. Trees turn green, young, fresh leaves appear, grass becomes green too. The rays of the sun warm the earth. The sky is blue and cloudless; there are no clouds in it.

Everybody feels younger and stronger. Many people like spring more than other seasons. It is very pleasant to watch how nature awakens from her winter sleep.

When summer comes the weather gets warmer and sometimes it's very hot. When the temperature is over twenty degrees centigrade we say that it is hot. When the temperature is below twenty degrees we say it is warm. It is a busy time for those who live in the country. They cut grass and make hay while the weather is fine. It sometimes rains however in summer, and heavy clouds cover the sun. When clouds cover the sky we say: “It is cloudy”. There are also storms in summer with thunder, lightning and hail. There are showers too. When autumn comes the days get colder. The trees turn yellow. The leaves begin to turn yellow and fall from the trees.

Autumn is harvest time. The farmers gather crops and pick fruit in the orchards. The more they work the sooner the work is over. It's necessary to finish work before it gets cold and rainy. It often rains in autumn. Autumn is a rainy season. It often rains in summer too, but summer is not a rainy season and autumn is a rainy one. Autumn is the most rainy season of the year.

Winter is the coldest season. Sometimes we have hard frost. The air is frosty then. The wind often blows in winter and we say: “It is windy”. But sometimes we have fog and we say: “It is foggy”. The days in winter are shorter than those in autumn. The shorter the days get, the longer the nights become. The days are the shortest in winter and the nights are the longest. People usually spend more time indoors because it is cold out of doors.

About english weather

England is an island country and its territory isn't very large. That's why there is no wide range of climatic conditions in this country. There are some features common to the climate of this country as a whole: the climate is mild, wet and the weather is changeable.

The weather really very often changes in England. You can seldom have the same kind of weather for a long time. This is because of the Atlantic Ocean. The winds blowing from the Atlantic bring plenty of rain to the island.

Summer sometimes happens to be hot but not very often. More often sunshine and rain follow each other so many times during the day that it is better not to leave your raincoat at home. Sometimes summer months are rather cold. One can never depend on the weather. So, most people plan to go abroad for the summer holidays, to France or somewhere on the Continent.

As to winter, it is generally mild. The English winter on the whole is not as severe as the Russian winter. They never have very low temperatures there. However here again we must say about the weather changeability. In winter they have all sorts of weather. Sometimes it rains and sometimes it snows and they also have fog and frost, but they never have much snow and many frosty days there.

Spring is a lovely season of the year in England. However, they sometimes have really cold days when it is raining and cold winds are blowing from the north.

When autumn comes, of course, they get a great deal of rain; the weather is very damp and rather nasty.

The most unpleasant aspect of English weather is fog and smog. This is extremely bad in big towns and especially in London, where fogs can be very unpleasant and they can stop traffic.

So we say that English weather on the whole is not exceptionally good. It's very damp, they have a great deal of rain and the English summer is usually disappointing.