MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for AUG. 2002 NAME: Ferryhill CITY: Ferryhill STATE: Co. Durham ELEV: 394 feet LAT: 54deg 41min N LONG: 1deg 33min 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 16.3 17.3 13:30 14.6 23:30 0.1 0.9 14.6 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 2 14.3 15.4 20:00 13.6 9:30 1.2 0.0 36.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 3 16.6 23.3 14:30 11.7 4:30 1.0 2.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 4 17.4 20.2 14:30 15.8 4:00 0.0 1.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 5 17.6 21.3 15:00 15.2 3:30 0.0 2.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 6 18.3 23.7 17:00 15.2 5:00 0.0 2.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 7 18.7 24.6 16:00 16.0 5:00 0.0 3.2 2.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 8 15.5 18.1 17:30 12.8 7:30 0.7 0.7 0.4 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 9 14.5 17.0 12:30 11.8 24:00 1.3 0.3 1.6 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 10 12.6 13.7 19:30 11.4 1:30 2.9 0.0 8.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 11 14.6 18.2 14:30 12.2 4:00 1.3 0.4 0.8 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 12 16.1 22.1 17:00 13.0 6:30 0.7 1.3 0.4 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 13 17.6 20.9 13:00 14.3 3:30 0.2 2.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 14 18.8 23.2 16:30 16.1 7:00 0.0 3.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 15 17.9 20.9 16:00 14.6 24:00 0.0 2.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 16 15.9 21.4 16:00 10.2 6:30 1.3 1.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 17 20.0 27.2 17:00 14.2 5:00 0.2 4.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 18 19.1 23.2 18:00 16.6 4:30 0.0 3.6 3.4 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 19 16.0 19.1 15:00 14.3 5:30 0.3 0.8 2.6 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 20 15.7 18.7 18:00 14.1 7:30 0.5 0.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 21 15.2 18.8 14:30 11.7 6:00 1.1 0.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 22 15.4 18.2 13:30 13.3 6:30 0.8 0.7 2.4 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 23 14.6 15.6 15:30 13.6 0:30 0.9 0.0 14.6 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 24 15.6 19.2 14:30 12.8 6:00 0.8 0.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 25 14.6 17.2 14:00 12.6 4:30 1.2 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 26 13.8 17.2 17:30 11.2 3:30 2.0 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 27 15.3 23.3 16:00 10.1 4:00 1.8 1.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 28 17.2 22.4 15:30 13.3 7:00 0.4 2.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 29 18.2 22.7 15:00 15.4 24:00 0.0 2.7 1.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 30 16.8 20.6 16:30 14.3 24:00 0.2 1.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 31 13.6 17.1 17:00 10.8 7:30 2.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16.3 27.2 17 10.1 27 23.3 46.7 88.4 0.0 0.0 1 --- Max >= 32.0: 0 Max <= 0.0: 0 Min <= 0.0: 0 Min <= -18.0: 0 Max Rain: 36.20 ON 2/08/02 Days of Rain: 13 (> .2 mm) 7 (> 2 mm) 1 (> 20 mm) Heat Base: 15.5 Cool Base: 15.5 Method: Integration Overall warmer and drier than average - the warmest since 1997. Thundery start, with some heavy downpours, particularly in central Scotland and the east. On the 1st there were 115 mm of rain at Fylingdales (North Yorkshire). 63 mm of rain fell in one hour on the afternoon of the 7th at Olney, near Milton Keynes. 32 mm of rain fell in 2 hours in central London, also on the 7th, causing flooding in the Underground. Hampstead, at the centre of this downpour, experienced another exceptional weather event: it had 71 mm of rain, with 60 mm of it in one hour. A tornado was photographed plowing a 3 mile track through fields near Burton Bradstock (Dorset) on the 9th. There were further severe thunderstorms across the south on the 9th. On the 10th Filey (Yorks.) had 75 mm of rain in 3 hours, leading to flooding. It was fine from the 12th on; some places in the south had no rain in the last 19 days of the month. It was hot midmonth; 31C at Hunstanton and Herne Bay on the 17th, although there were thunderstorms in the west on the night of 17-18th, with 68 mm of rain at Milford Haven. Heavy rain in Scotland on the 30th. Given it was such a thundery month, although the average was dry, there were some exceptions.