MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for DEC. 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 6.3 8.2 15:30 3.6 3:00 9.2 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 --- --- 2 6.4 7.5 0:30 5.5 5:30 4.0 0.0 3.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- 3 5.8 6.7 15:00 4.9 19:00 4.2 0.0 1.8 0.0 0.0 --- --- 4 5.8 7.0 14:00 4.3 00:00 9.7 0.0 1.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- 5 5.1 6.6 14:00 3.5 8:00 10.5 0.0 2.4 0.0 0.0 --- --- 6 5.2 6.2 15:00 3.9 00:00 9.9 0.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 7 2.9 4.3 14:00 2.2 11:00 9.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 8 4.3 4.9 5:00 3.4 0:30 4.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 9 2.6 4.7 23:00 -0.2 3:00 10.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 10 8.5 10.6 16:00 4.5 0:30 6.8 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- 11 9.6 10.3 1:00 7.1 00:00 6.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 12 4.8 7.1 0:30 3.4 00:00 10.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 13 5.6 8.5 22:30 2.3 5:30 9.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 14 7.2 8.4 13:00 4.5 21:00 8.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 15 9.2 10.9 23:30 8.0 0:30 6.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 16 6.2 10.7 4:00 1.3 00:00 9.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 17 0.9 2.2 13:30 -0.2 00:00 14.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 18 1.4 5.5 22:00 -1.3 2:00 14.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 19 5.4 7.6 13:30 4.1 9:00 10.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 20 4.8 7.1 13:00 3.1 21:00 11.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 21 7.7 9.8 11:00 4.7 0:30 7.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 22 7.3 9.7 23:00 5.4 5:00 8.3 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 --- --- 23 9.3 11.3 14:30 7.6 20:30 6.2 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 24 7.1 9.2 2:30 4.9 23:00 8.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 25 5.0 5.9 14:00 4.1 00:00 10.9 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- 26 4.3 5.4 13:00 3.1 00:00 11.2 0.0 4.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 27 2.4 3.4 6:00 1.4 00:00 13.1 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- 28 0.4 1.6 1:00 -0.9 00:00 15.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 29 -3.2 -0.8 1:00 -4.8 10:00 19.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 30 0.2 3.9 00:00 -3.2 1:00 15.4 0.0 1.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- 31 3.8 5.1 15:00 2.4 1:00 11.7 0.0 17.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.9 11.3 23 -4.8 29 305.1 0.0 43.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- (+0.6) (73%) Max >= 32.0: 0 Max <= 0.0: 1 Min <= 0.0: 6 Min <= -18.0: 0 Max Rain: 16.99 ON 31/12/05 Days of Rain: 17 (> .2 mm) 5 (> 2 mm) 0 (> 20 mm) Heat Base: 15.5 Cool Base: 15.5 Method: Integration Sunny and quite dry. It was particularly sunny in the SE. Sunshine averaged 65 hours, against an expected mean of 48 hours - the fourth sunniest December on record (but not as sunny as 2001). Apart from the very beginning and end it as an anticyclonic month. Temperatures overall were about normal, with some mild days in the first part of the month offset by a cold end. There was a cold, snowy spell at the end of the month, with some heavy snow in the southeast and then the north and east. The minimum at Aviemore on the 29th was -12.8C on the night of the 28-29th, and the maximum at Durham on the 29th was only -3.9C. It was a dry month; parts of Dorset had no rain from the 7th until the 29th.