Editing Wales (section)

===Climate===
{{main|Climate of Wales}}
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|Wales
|1.3|6.5|158.6
|1.1|6.6|114
|2.4|8.6|118.8
|3.4|11|85.9
|6|14.5|80.7
|8.6|16.8|86.2
|10.9|19.1|78.4
|10.7|18.8|106
|8.8|16.2|124
|6.5|12.8|153.2
|3.7|9.3|156.8
|2.2|7.4|173.3
|source=[http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/averages/19712000/areal/wales.html Met Office]
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[[File:Milvus milvus R(ThKraft).jpg|thumb|upright=0.75|A [[Red kite]], considered one of the [[national symbols of Wales]] and voted the nation's favourite bird<ref>{{cite web |date=3 July 2019 |title=National symbols of Wales |url=https://www.wales.com/about/culture/national-symbols-wales |access-date=5 September 2022 |website=Wales }}</ref>]]
Wales lies within the [[Temperateness|north temperate zone]]. It has a changeable, [[maritime climate]] and is one of the wettest countries in Europe.<ref name="Met Off 1">{{cite web|url=http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/regional-climates/wl/ |publisher=[[Met Office]] |year=2010|title=Met Office: Regional Climate: Wales|access-date=26 September 2010 |website=[[Met Office]] website}}</ref><ref name="Davies148-150">Davies (2008) pp. 148–150</ref> Welsh weather is often cloudy, wet and windy, with warm summers and mild winters.<ref name="Met Off 1"/><ref name="WalesOnline soggy">
{{cite web|url=http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_objectid=14140027&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=soggiest-city-in-britain-pays-high-price-for-rain-name_page.html|title=Soggiest city in Britain pays high price for rain|publisher=[[Media Wales|Media Wales Ltd]]|last=Turner |first=Robert|access-date = 26 September 2010|date = 26 July 2010}}
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* Highest maximum temperature: {{convert|37.1|°C|0|abbr=on}} at [[Hawarden]], Flintshire on 18 July 2022.<ref>{{cite news |title=Heatwave latest: Wales sees hottest day on record, provisional figures show |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-62184978 |access-date=18 July 2022}}</ref>
* Lowest minimum temperature: {{convert|-23.3|°C|0|abbr=on}} at [[Rhayader]], Radnorshire (now [[Powys]]) on 21 January 1940.<ref name="Met Office Temp">{{cite web |title=Wales: climate |url=http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/wl/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113130422/http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/wl/ |archive-date=13 January 2012 |access-date=9 September 2010 |publisher=[[Met Office]]}}</ref>
* Maximum number of hours of sunshine in a month: 354.3 hours at [[Dale Fort]], Pembrokeshire in July 1955.<ref name="Met Haul 1">{{cite web|url=http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/wl/|title=Met Office:Regional Climate: Wales|year=2009|publisher=[[Met Office]]|access-date=6 October 2009|website=Met Office website|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113130422/http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/wl/|archive-date=13 January 2012}}</ref>
* Minimum number of hours of sunshine in a month: 2.7 hours at Llwynon, [[Brecknockshire]] in January 1962.<ref name="Met Haul 1"/>
* Maximum rainfall in a day (0900 UTC – 0900 UTC): {{convert|211|mm}} at [[Rhondda]], Glamorgan, on 11 November 1929.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Digital Archive of Extreme UK Rainfall Events|url=http://www.hydro-gis.co.uk/pdf_files/digital_archive_flyer.pdf|publisher=Hydro-GIS Ltd.|access-date=2 October 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312105749/http://www.hydro-gis.co.uk/pdf_files/digital_archive_flyer.pdf|archive-date=12 March 2012}}</ref>
* Wettest spot – an average of {{convert|4473|mm|0}} rain a year at [[Crib Goch]] in Snowdonia, Gwynedd (making it also the wettest spot in the United Kingdom).<ref>
{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3354276/The-wetter-the-better.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128075059/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3354276/The-wetter-the-better.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 January 2012|title=The wetter, the better|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|last=Clark|first=Ross|date=28 October 2006|access-date=2 September 2009|location=London}}</ref>