MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for DEC. 2003 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 6.9 8.1 23:00 5.0 3:00 8.6 0.0 11.6 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 2 8.9 9.5 14:00 8.1 1:00 6.6 0.0 8.4 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 3 8.2 8.8 13:00 7.2 24:00 7.3 0.0 2.4 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 4 7.1 8.3 13:00 4.3 23:00 8.4 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 5 6.0 8.1 20:00 3.8 10:00 9.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 6 6.5 8.2 1:00 5.5 24:00 9.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 7 2.7 5.5 1:00 -0.5 24:00 12.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 8 0.2 1.8 15:00 -1.3 5:00 15.3 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 9 2.1 4.2 23:00 -0.3 3:00 13.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 10 3.8 8.2 24:00 1.0 9:00 11.7 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 11 5.3 8.0 1:00 2.1 23:00 10.2 0.0 7.8 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 12 3.6 10.1 24:00 0.2 8:00 11.9 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 13 9.1 11.2 5:00 5.4 24:00 6.4 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 14 5.2 7.7 14:00 2.0 23:00 10.3 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 15 2.2 3.7 14:00 0.1 24:00 13.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 16 2.1 5.2 24:00 -0.3 3:00 13.4 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 17 3.6 6.7 6:00 -0.4 24:00 11.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 18 0.6 2.9 20:00 -1.3 4:00 14.9 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 19 3.7 6.7 14:00 0.2 2:00 11.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 20 2.1 3.6 18:00 0.4 2:00 13.4 0.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 21 2.4 4.3 4:00 -0.1 24:00 13.1 0.0 4.8 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 22 0.8 4.2 24:00 -0.7 4:00 14.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 23 7.7 9.8 24:00 4.2 1:00 7.8 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 24 9.3 9.8 14:00 8.6 6:00 6.2 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 25 9.6 10.4 16:00 8.7 24:00 5.9 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 26 7.8 9.5 13:00 4.0 24:00 7.3 0.0 1.8 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 27 3.2 5.2 14:00 0.9 22:00 11.8 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 28 2.7 4.4 15:00 1.1 6:00 12.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 29 0.8 2.3 14:00 -0.6 23:00 14.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 30 -1.3 0.5 14:00 -2.9 5:00 16.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 31 -1.3 1.2 21:00 -3.3 4:00 16.8 0.0 5.6 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.2 11.2 13 -3.3 31 346.1 0.0 55.4 0.0 0.0 1 --- (-0.1) (94%) Max >= 32.0: 0 Max <= 0.0: 0 Min <= 0.0: 11 Min <= -18.0: 0 Max Rain: 11.60 ON 1/12/03 Days of Rain: 13 (> .2 mm) 7 (> 2 mm) 0 (> 20 mm) Heat Base: 15.5 Cool Base: 15.5 Method: Integration Quite cold; some mild spells mixed with cold ones. Temperatures ranged from 15C in Aberdeen on the 5th and in Exter and Gloucester on the 11th, to -15.8C at Altnaharra on the 31st, afer a minimum of -14.9C the night before, and a maximum of -9.1C. The same night it reached -16.1C at Kinbrace (the lowest December reading since 1995). Widespread fog in England on the 9th and 10th. Christmas was particularly mild. There was a notable snowfall, with blizzards in places, in the north and east on New Year's Eve. (Indeed, we were snowed in for three days.) Rainfall was about average in most places, although it was very wet along the central south coast. The month was generally sunnier than average.