MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for DEC. 2007 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 7.1 9.1 0:30 5.0 7:30 10.9 0.0 6.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- 2 5.5 7.1 3:00 3.9 00:00 12.5 0.0 5.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 3 5.0 7.0 13:30 3.0 5:30 13.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 4 8.2 12.9 19:00 3.5 4:30 9.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 5 10.7 12.9 2:30 8.5 00:00 7.3 0.0 1.8 0.0 0.0 --- --- 6 9.8 12.1 16:00 7.4 4:00 8.2 0.0 1.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- 7 6.7 8.6 1:00 4.8 23:00 11.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 8 3.9 6.0 23:00 1.9 13:00 14.1 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 9 4.7 6.5 23:00 2.8 9:00 13.3 0.0 7.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- 10 3.6 5.7 0:30 1.4 00:00 14.4 0.0 2.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- 11 2.9 5.2 13:30 0.6 23:00 15.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 12 1.0 1.9 13:30 0.1 2:00 17.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 13 1.1 2.8 14:00 -0.7 8:30 16.9 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 14 -0.7 0.2 20:00 -1.6 6:30 18.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 15 -0.2 1.2 00:00 -1.6 10:30 18.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 16 0.4 2.3 14:00 -1.5 00:00 17.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 17 1.4 4.8 00:00 -1.9 1:30 16.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 18 5.1 5.7 14:00 4.5 00:00 12.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 19 3.4 5.1 13:30 1.7 00:00 14.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 20 1.8 2.7 5:00 0.8 2:00 16.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 21 0.6 2.5 0:30 -1.3 00:00 17.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 22 0.9 3.9 19:00 -2.2 5:30 17.1 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 23 1.4 3.3 13:30 -0.4 8:00 16.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 24 5.5 8.2 12:00 2.8 0:30 12.5 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 25 3.3 4.7 1:00 1.9 19:00 14.7 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 26 5.6 8.6 00:00 2.7 0:30 12.4 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 27 9.8 11.1 8:30 8.6 0:30 8.2 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 28 9.1 11.5 9:30 6.7 00:00 8.9 0.0 6.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 29 4.4 6.7 0:30 2.1 4:30 13.6 0.0 4.8 0.0 0.0 --- --- 30 4.6 5.7 13:30 3.6 2:00 13.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 31 5.8 6.7 21:30 4.9 3:00 12.2 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.3 12.9 5 -2.2 22 425.7 0.0 45.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- Max >= 32.0: 0 Max <= 0.0: 0 Min <= 0.0: 8 Min <= -18.0: 0 Max Rain: 7.59 ON 09/12/07 Days of Rain: 17 (> .2 mm) 8 (> 2 mm) 0 (> 20 mm) Heat Base: 18.0 Cool Base: 18.0 Method: (High + Low) / 2 Average temperatures overall. Dry, particularly in the east, with about half eht expected rainfall. Shoeburyness (Essex) had just 22 mm of rain. It was quite sunny, except for parts of the east, with an England and Wales average of 57 hours. The first third of the month was unsettled and mild; middle two weeks anticyclonic and getting colder with frost and fog; unsettled finish. The lowest temperature of the month was -13.0C at Aboyne (Aberdeenshire) on the morning of the 22nd; the maximum at Aberfeldy (Perthshire) on the 21st was just -4.2C.