MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for AUG. 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 14.3 17.7 16:00 11.8 6:00 1.5 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 2 15.3 21.1 16:00 9.6 6:00 1.6 1.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 3 15.3 19.3 17:00 10.4 6:00 1.2 1.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 4 14.9 19.4 15:00 12.4 5:00 1.0 0.5 1.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 5 15.4 18.8 16:00 12.7 5:00 1.0 0.9 0.4 0.0 0.0 --- --- 6 14.5 18.9 15:00 11.3 4:00 1.4 0.4 0.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- 7 13.8 17.4 17:00 10.3 7:00 1.7 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 8 14.1 19.6 16:00 10.5 6:00 1.8 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 9 14.8 18.3 14:00 12.4 7:00 1.0 0.4 1.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 10 17.1 22.4 16:00 12.6 5:00 0.8 2.3 1.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 11 17.1 20.9 17:00 14.6 7:00 0.2 1.7 6.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- 12 14.7 16.7 19:00 13.6 7:00 0.9 0.2 1.4 0.0 0.0 --- --- 13 14.7 19.6 16:00 11.9 7:00 1.5 0.7 1.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- 14 14.8 17.2 15:00 13.1 7:00 1.0 0.3 0.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- 15 16.2 21.9 16:00 11.3 7:00 1.2 1.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 16 17.4 21.9 14:00 14.8 3:00 0.1 2.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 --- --- 17 19.2 24.8 18:00 14.4 7:00 0.1 3.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 18 18.7 24.7 15:00 14.4 6:00 0.2 3.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 19 16.5 19.8 15:00 14.3 8:00 0.3 1.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 20 15.9 20.2 17:00 13.2 2:00 0.8 1.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 21 16.9 23.3 16:00 11.1 6:00 1.1 2.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 22 16.5 17.8 1:00 14.2 23:00 0.1 0.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 23 14.5 18.9 14:00 9.8 7:00 1.5 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 24 15.3 18.6 17:00 11.1 00:00 0.8 0.5 3.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 25 12.3 15.3 15:00 9.1 7:00 3.2 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 --- --- 26 12.6 15.6 14:00 9.2 7:00 2.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 27 14.8 18.2 16:00 12.9 7:00 1.1 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 28 16.3 20.7 17:00 12.7 4:00 0.8 1.6 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 29 17.6 20.1 15:00 13.6 00:00 0.2 2.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 30 15.6 23.2 18:00 8.6 6:00 2.1 2.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 31 18.4 25.9 17:00 14.3 7:00 0.2 3.0 6.4 0.0 0.0 --- --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.7 25.9 31 8.6 30 33.3 37.9 26.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- (+0.6) (43%) Max >= 32.0: 0 Max <= 0.0: 0 Min <= 0.0: 0 Min <= -18.0: 0 Max Rain: 6.60 ON 11/08/05 Days of Rain: 16 (> .2 mm) 3 (> 2 mm) 0 (> 20 mm) Heat Base: 15.5 Cool Base: 15.5 Method: Integration Overall about average temperatures - some high temperatures were offset by some cool nights. A minimum of +0.8C was recorded at Braemar on the night of the 8-9th. It was slightly drier than average in the south, and slightly wetter than average in the north, with most of the rain coming in an unsettled period from the 19th-25th. It was quite dry in the NE and far SW, and particularly on the Isle of Man. It was slightly sunnier than average, and particularly sunny on the Devon and Dorset coasts. There were some violent thunderstorms in the south on the 19th; 51 mm of rain fell at Portsdown, near Portsmouth, most of it in half an hour. The month ended with an exceptional short-lived hot spell: 32.1C was recorded at Northolt (London) on the 31st, the highest temperature so late in the year since 1949. The southerly winds brought a dustfall and was followed by a thundery breakdown.