MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for FEB. 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 8.4 11.9 15:00 4.2 5:00 9.9 0.0 1.6 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 2 10.1 12.2 7:00 7.3 24:00 8.2 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 3 7.0 9.5 13:00 4.2 23:00 11.3 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 4 5.1 8.6 22:00 2.3 8:00 13.2 0.0 9.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 5 6.3 7.6 1:00 4.9 6:00 3.5 0.0 4.4 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 6 5.7 8.7 8:00 2.8 24:00 8.9 0.0 3.4 0.0 0.0 8:00 --- 7 6.0 10.2 15:00 1.8 2:00 12.3 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 8 8.8 11.0 21:00 7.6 7:00 8.7 0.0 1.4 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 9 10 8.9 10.4 22:00 7.1 11:00 5.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 11:00 --- 11 9.8 11.4 7:00 7.7 19:00 8.4 0.0 4.6 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 12 7.7 10.0 13:00 3.6 24:00 10.5 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 13 4.5 6.3 14:00 2.8 24:00 13.8 0.0 5.4 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 14 3.0 5.6 14:00 1.1 6:00 15.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 15 5.8 9.3 16:00 2.1 1:00 12.5 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 16 5.0 8.8 14:00 1.5 4:00 13.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 17 5.5 8.8 14:00 2.2 5:00 12.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 18 5.1 7.1 15:00 2.8 8:00 13.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 19 7.1 9.9 22:00 4.2 9:00 11.2 0.0 1.6 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 20 4.4 8.0 1:00 1.7 24:00 13.9 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 21 3.9 9.7 24:00 0.2 6:00 14.3 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 22 5.1 10.1 6:00 0.7 24:00 13.2 0.0 2.6 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 23 1.7 4.0 15:00 0.2 7:00 16.6 0.0 1.8 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 24 1.9 4.4 15:00 -0.8 4:00 16.3 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 25 4.6 8.0 17:00 1.2 4:00 13.7 0.0 5.2 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 26 5.3 8.6 15:00 2.4 9:00 13.0 0.0 12.8 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 27 3.8 6.1 16:00 2.0 23:00 14.5 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 28 3.2 5.8 13:00 1.8 24:00 15.0 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.7 12.2 2 -0.8 24 323.0 0.0 63.8 0.0 0.0 1 --- Max >= 32.0: 0 Max <= 0.0: 0 Min <= 0.0: 1 Min <= -18.0: 0 Max Rain: 12.80 ON 26/02/02 Days of Rain: 21 (> .2 mm) 10 (> 2 mm) 0 (> 20 mm) Heat Base: 18.3 Cool Base: 18.3 Method: Integration Just the sort of winter month I hate. Very mild, wet, and windy (particularly in the NW) - but not extraordinarily so. The spell 13 January to 12 February was exceptionally mild, with much of the country 5C above average. The second half of the month was much normal. Sadly, a lot above average plus average equals just above average. The month had a stormy start. Very mild and wet first week. Ebbw Vale had 143.8 mm of rain in the first two days, 108.3 mm of it on the 1st, with flooding in the area. It was quite wet, particularly in the NW, with Capel Curig recording 600 mm of rain. There was a short cold snap from the 23-25th, with drifting snow in north Scotland. There were gales in the south on the 26th. Overall, rainfall was 75% above average, so it was the wettest since 1990, although it was quite dry in parts of eastern England and very wet in north Wales, NW England, and SW Scotland. My main memory of it however was the lack of snow: surely we must have a real winter some when?