MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for APR. 2005 NAME: Ferryhill CITY: Ferryhill STATE: Co. Durham ELEV: 394 ft LAT: 54° 41' 00" N LONG: 1° 33' 00" W TEMPERATURE (°C), RAIN (mm), WIND SPEED (mph) HEAT COOL AVG MEAN DEG DEG WIND DOM DAY TEMP HIGH TIME LOW TIME DAYS DAYS RAIN SPEED HIGH TIME DIR ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 9.9 13.9 17:00 7.6 5:00 5.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 2 11.1 16.6 16:00 7.3 00:00 4.4 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 3 9.7 15.6 17:00 3.6 7:00 5.8 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 4 9.1 11.9 1:00 6.1 00:00 6.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 5 7.6 11.2 16:00 5.4 6:00 7.9 0.0 1.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 6 7.4 10.9 16:00 3.7 00:00 8.1 0.0 2.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- 7 5.2 9.1 15:00 1.8 5:00 10.3 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 8 3.2 4.8 16:00 1.7 22:00 12.4 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 9 5.8 8.4 18:00 2.1 1:00 9.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 10 10.2 14.4 16:00 6.3 7:00 5.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 11 10.1 13.6 18:00 6.6 8:00 5.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 12 10.1 13.3 15:00 7.6 00:00 5.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 13 8.1 11.8 15:00 5.8 7:00 7.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 14 6.8 7.5 11:00 5.3 00:00 8.7 0.0 5.8 0.0 0.0 --- --- 15 4.6 5.5 1:00 1.9 00:00 10.9 0.0 16.4 0.0 0.0 --- --- 16 5.7 9.6 17:00 2.4 1:00 9.8 0.0 6.8 0.0 0.0 --- --- 17 7.5 13.3 15:00 2.4 8:00 8.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 18 8.3 11.1 15:00 3.7 00:00 7.2 0.0 5.4 0.0 0.0 --- --- 19 6.8 12.0 14:00 2.7 9:00 8.7 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 --- --- 20 6.6 9.8 16:00 3.4 2:00 8.9 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 21 7.1 12.8 17:00 2.4 6:00 8.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 22 7.2 12.1 17:00 2.4 6:00 8.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 23 6.6 9.9 15:00 2.9 7:00 8.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 24 7.4 11.4 15:00 3.5 2:00 8.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 25 7.9 12.1 16:00 4.6 7:00 7.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 26 7.5 11.0 19:00 4.4 6:00 8.0 0.0 3.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- 27 7.6 13.3 17:00 3.7 7:00 8.0 0.0 2.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- 28 7.9 13.8 18:00 4.3 3:00 7.6 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 29 9.4 14.8 14:00 5.3 7:00 6.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 30 9.8 14.1 18:00 6.9 5:00 5.7 0.0 1.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.7 16.6 2 1.7 8 233.1 0.1 49.8 0.0 0.0 --- --- (+0.4) (96%) Max >= 32.0: 0 Max <= 0.0: 0 Min <= 0.0: 0 Min <= -18.0: 0 Max Rain: 16.41 ON 15/04/05 Days of Rain: 16 (> .2 mm) 8 (> 2 mm) 0 (> 20 mm) Heat Base: 15.5 Cool Base: 15.5 Method: Integration A little warmer than average, and a little wetter. Very wet in southern and western Scotland, northern England, and Devon. It was the dullest April in the Midlands since 1993. There was a particularly wet spell, with flooding, in southern Scotland and northern England midmonth, while it was cloudless in northern and western Scotland from the 16th to the 26th. It warmed up at the end of the month, with 22C in London on the 30th. The maximum of 0.1C at Lerwick on the 8th made it the coldest April day since 1985 there.