The [?] in Scotland is Oceanic - we are, after all, an [?]! At a latitude of between about 55 - 62 degrees [?], you might expect temperatures equivalent to those found at a similar latitude in [?]. However the influence of the warm [?] current means that instead of temperatures similar to those of Labrador and [?], the average January temperature throughout most of [?] is between one and ten degrees Celsius, and the average for July between ten and twenty Celsius.
Prevailing winds are from the west or [?], and annual rainfall ranges from over 60 inches in the west to less than 20 inches in the east. The winter months are usually the [?] but sometimes there is also heavy rainfall in late summer.
Winters are not particularly [?] but usually quite [?]. Snow does fall, increasingly so away from the coast and on [?]. Northeast winds in particular can bring prolonged low temperatures, and the record low temperature for Scotland is about [?] 28 degrees Celsius.