July is the average warmest month.

The highest recorded temperature was 42 Degrees in 1954.

The average coolest month is January.

The lowest recorded temperature was -20 Degrees in 1962.

April is the average wettest month.

What are the main differences between the English and Spanish Weather? Temperature? Rain Fall? Seasonal Patterns?

Is there a great difference between seasons here in Murcia? Have these seasonal changes become less noticeable due to climate change?

What are the main differences between the weather within different regions in Spain

Would you prefer to live in a country with more varied weather patterns? Is so where?

Rain-drizzle-showers

cold-cool-fresh-freezing

hot-mild-warm-boiling-blistering

breeze-wind-gale

mist - fog

Smog – Hazy

Overcast

Snow-Sleet-Hail

Frost-Ice

Climate is what you expect; weather is what you get.

Thunderstorm

Sandstorm Snowstorm Blizzard Tornado Hurricane Cyclone

•Intense, rotating oceanic weather system that possesses maximum sustained winds exceeding 119 km/hr (74 mph)

•A very strong windstorm, especially in the desert, that carries clouds of sand or dust, and greatly reduces visibility

•closed, circular fluid motion rotating in the same direction as the Earth

•Are storms where large amounts of snow fall

•Strong winds blow snow into snowdrifts (huge piles) that can bury people and possessions)

•Also known as an electrical storm, a lightning storm, thundershower is a form of weather characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.

•violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud

Thunderstorm - Also known as an electrical storm, a lightning storm, thundershower is a form of weather characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.

Sandstorm - A very strong windstorm, especially in the desert, that carries clouds of sand or dust, and greatly reduces visibility

Snowstorm - Are storms where large amounts of snow fall

Blizzard - Strong winds blow snow into snowdrifts (huge piles) that can bury people and possessions)

Tornado - violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud

Hurricane - Intense, rotating oceanic weather system that possesses maximum sustained winds exceeding 119 km/hr (74 mph)

Cyclone - closed, circular fluid motion rotating in the same direction as the Earth

What are the main weather conditions that can be found in Spain?

How is the weather in Murcia different to that of other regions?

Does Spain ever suffer from extreme weather conditions? Does it differ greatly between the north and the south?

Would you like to live in a place with more severe weather conditions? If so where and why?

The Food Standards Agency is a non-ministerial government department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

It is responsible for protecting public health in relation to food throughout the United Kingdom and is led by a board appointed to act in the public interest.

Its headquarters are in London, opposite Holborn tube station, with national offices in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Jamie Oliver made a television programme on the appalling conditions in which many of the birds live and hopes to encourage supermarkets to invest in better-treated birds such as free range or organic.

The hope was to draw attention to the suffering of the birds and the poor quality of the meat.

In some supermarkets, entire chickens can be bought for as little as £2.50, while recent figures from the RSPCA showed that only five per cent of the birds in Britain were kept in high welfare conditions.

Is Spain a country that cares a lot about food Standards?

How much information are you given about where the food has come from? Do you care?

How much do you know about animal welfare in Spain?

How popular is organic food in Spain?

Do you think any of this system needs to change/improve?

Is a word used when green PR or green marketing is deceptively used to promote the perception that an organization's aims and policies are environmentally friendly.

Whether it is to increase profits or gain political support, greenwashing can be used to manipulate public opinion.

Examples Include

Hotels asking guests to reuse towels?

Shell and BP advertising campaigns

Eon Energy Advert

Greenwashing

Is it popular for spanish companies to greenwash?

Can you think of any examples of spanish companies that use greenwashing techniques?

What are the types of companies most likely to use greenwashing techniques?

Walk or take public transport instead of driving. Write to US president B.Obama. urging him to do

more. Replace your electricity supply with renewable

energy, such as solar or wind power. Use the lights in your house less or switch to

energy saving. Replace your electrical appliances with more

energy efficient ones Plant a tree in the forest. Recycle everything you use. Donate money to organizations pushing for

controls on global warming.