Editing Peak District (section)

===Climate===
Most of the area is over {{convert|1000|ft|m|-2}} above sea level,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.peakdistrictinformation.com/features/kinder.php |title=Kinder Scout – the highest gritstone peak in the Peak District |publisher=Peak District Information |year=2008 |access-date=21 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722195737/http://www.peakdistrictinformation.com/features/kinder.php |archive-date=22 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> in the centre of the country at a latitude of 53°N, bringing relatively high annual rainfall averaging {{convert|40.35|in|mm}} in 1999. The Dark Peak tends to receive more rainfall than the White Peak, as it is higher. The higher rainfall does not affect the temperature, which averages the same as the rest of England and Wales at {{cvt|10.3|°C|°F}}.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.peakdistrict-nationalpark.info/place/rivers/climate.html |title=Peak District Climate |publisher=Peak District National Park |year=2003 |access-date=13 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523234641/http://www.peakdistrict-nationalpark.info/place/rivers/climate.html |archive-date=23 May 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the 1970s, the Dark Peak regularly had more than 70 days of snowfall. Since then the number has fallen. The hills still see long periods of continuous snow cover in some winters. Snow in mid-December 2009 on some hill summits created some snow patches that lasted until May 2010. In the same winter, the A635 (Saddleworth Moor) and A57 (Snake Pass) were closed due to snow for almost a month. Frost cover is seen for 20–30 per cent of the winter on moorland in the Dark Peak and 10 per cent in the White Peak.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thepeakdistrict.info/fast/html/peak_district_general_informat.html |title=About the Peak District&nbsp;... |publisher=ThePeakDistrict.info |year=2007 |access-date=23 May 2009 |archive-date=26 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090426010916/http://www.thepeakdistrict.info/fast/html/peak_district_general_informat.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Moorland Indicators of Climate Change Initiative was set up in 2008 to collect data in the area. Students investigated the interaction between people and the moorlands and their effect on climate change, to discover whether the moorlands are a net [[carbon sink]] or source, based on the fact that Britain's upland areas contain a major global carbon store in the form of [[peat]]. Human interaction in terms of direct erosion and fire, with the effects of global warming, are the main variables they considered.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/learning-about/learning-projects/climatechangeproject |title=Moorland Indicators of Climate Change Initiative 2012 |publisher=Peak District |year=2012 |access-date=3 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120122183958/http://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/learning-about/learning-projects/climatechangeproject |archive-date=22 January 2012}}</ref>