"John Hall" wrote in message
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In article . com,
"Jack )" writes:
Brussels? It's not in UK. (newsgroup is uk.sci.weather). Am I
really that bothered?


I was quite interested in the reason as I'd noticed the efect here (SW
Essex) too today. Being used to the North Sea effects in NE England I
assumed that was the cause.

It takes the edge of the cold easterlies in the winter and the warm
easterlies in the summer and kills off some continental TStorms (but peps up
a smaller number of others?), I've often wondered what climate we would have
if the North Sea were still dry land. I assume that, then, the Grampians,
Pennines and Cambrian Mountains would mark more of a boundary between
different climatic zones in NW Europe - or would they?

- Tom.