MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for APR. 2006 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 8.4 11.2 14:30 6.4 7:00 7.1 0.0 6.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 2 6.7 9.8 12:00 3.6 00:00 8.6 0.0 6.4 0.0 0.0 --- --- 3 5.0 8.1 13:00 3.0 23:30 10.5 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- 4 3.4 6.0 15:00 1.2 6:30 12.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 5 5.2 9.8 15:30 1.0 6:00 10.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 6 7.1 10.2 15:00 4.3 00:00 8.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 7 5.9 9.8 14:30 3.0 00:00 9.6 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 8 4.2 8.4 12:00 1.3 5:30 11.3 0.0 1.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 9 4.1 6.4 14:30 2.2 00:00 11.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 10 4.5 9.1 14:30 1.2 5:30 11.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 11 7.4 12.5 13:30 3.8 0:30 8.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 12 8.5 11.1 13:30 5.8 2:30 7.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 13 9.2 12.1 12:30 6.4 00:00 6.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 14 8.9 13.6 16:00 5.5 4:30 6.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 15 9.6 14.6 14:30 5.3 5:30 5.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 16 10.2 13.7 14:00 7.2 00:00 5.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 17 8.9 12.2 15:00 5.8 22:30 6.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 18 8.4 12.3 13:00 5.3 4:30 7.1 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 --- --- 19 8.2 13.0 15:30 5.4 00:00 7.3 0.0 3.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 20 8.7 13.9 14:00 5.2 5:30 6.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 21 8.4 10.8 14:00 7.0 4:30 7.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 22 10.3 14.3 16:00 5.9 6:30 5.2 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 --- --- 23 10.2 14.9 15:30 6.0 00:00 5.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 24 9.1 14.7 14:30 3.0 5:00 6.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 25 12.3 16.3 14:30 9.7 22:30 3.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 26 11.2 14.2 14:30 8.1 00:00 4.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 27 10.8 15.4 15:00 6.9 1:30 4.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 28 9.7 12.6 13:30 7.2 5:30 5.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 29 8.8 11.8 16:00 6.3 5:00 6.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 30 7.4 10.9 14:30 4.9 5:30 8.0 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 --- --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.0 16.3 25 1.0 5 223.9 0.1 21.4 0.0 0.0 --- --- (+0.7) (41%) Max >= 32.0: 0 Max <= 0.0: 0 Min <= 0.0: 0 Min <= -18.0: 0 Max Rain: 6.40 ON 02/04/06 Days of Rain: 10 (> .2 mm) 4 (> 2 mm) 0 (> 20 mm) Heat Base: 15.5 Cool Base: 15.5 Method: Integration It was the most westerly April since 1977, yet it was very dry, particularly in the east and south, but quite wet in the north and west. There was a cold snap at the start, with snow in the south on the night of Sunday-Monday 9-10th. The Premiership game at Sunderland was snowed off on the afternoon of Saturday 8th. There was 15 cm of wet snow at Tunbridge Wells on the morning of the 10th as heavy rain fell out of cold air. It became milder towards the end of the month; the temperature reached 19.7C at Herstmonceux (Sussex) on the 21st - the latest date 18C was exceeded somewhere in the UK since 1986. Overall temperatures were about average, although there were no very warm days. It was quite a sunny month.