MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for FEB. 2003 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 3.5 5.7 14:00 0.9 3:00 12.0 0.0 1.4 0.0 0.0 --- --- 2 3.1 4.9 0:15 0.4 23:15 12.4 0.0 1.4 0.0 0.0 --- --- 3 0.8 2.3 13:30 -0.3 6:15 14.6 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 --- --- 4 0.8 2.6 13:00 -1.0 00:00 14.7 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 5 0.4 3.0 15:00 -1.8 00:00 15.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 6 1.3 5.6 00:00 -2.9 1:30 14.2 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 7 5.9 8.1 21:00 3.2 8:45 9.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 8 8.4 9.3 13:45 7.6 0:15 7.1 0.0 1.4 0.0 0.0 --- --- 9 6.3 7.8 14:45 2.7 00:00 9.2 0.0 3.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- 10 2.8 5.6 16:00 -0.7 6:30 12.7 0.0 2.8 0.0 0.0 --- --- 11 5.6 8.7 15:00 3.1 9:30 9.9 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 12 4.9 6.0 14:15 3.2 5:45 10.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 13 3.2 5.3 2:30 1.1 00:00 12.3 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 --- --- 14 1.2 3.6 14:15 -0.9 8:45 14.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 15 1.2 5.0 15:00 -1.2 8:15 14.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 16 0.4 1.7 4:00 -1.9 22:30 15.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 17 -0.9 1.7 15:00 -2.4 7:45 16.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 18 0.1 3.9 14:45 -2.8 2:30 15.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 19 1.4 4.9 14:30 -0.6 6:30 14.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 20 2.7 4.7 14:00 0.8 7:45 12.9 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 21 3.8 8.0 15:00 1.2 2:45 11.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 22 2.8 6.3 14:45 -0.4 8:45 12.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 23 3.6 7.7 17:30 -0.2 7:00 11.9 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- 24 4.8 5.7 13:30 2.8 9:30 10.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 25 5.2 10.2 14:30 3.0 22:30 10.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 26 4.7 8.2 16:00 2.2 5:00 10.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 27 5.4 9.3 15:15 1.6 3:45 10.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 28 7.0 9.4 17:15 4.6 6:30 8.5 0.0 1.8 0.0 0.0 --- --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2 10.2 25 -2.9 6 343.5 0.0 15.8 0.0 0.0 --- --- (-0.6) (41%) Max >= 32.0: 0 Max <= 0.0: 0 Min <= 0.0: 13 Min <= -18.0: 0 Max Rain: 3.61 ON 09/02/03 Days of Rain: 13 (> .2 mm) 2 (> 2 mm) 0 (> 20 mm) Heat Base: 15.5 Cool Base: 15.5 Method: Integration A dry, sunny, mostly anticylconic month, with only 60% of the expected rainfall (39 mm). It was particularly dry in the east: Stonehaven had only 8 mm of rain. Also a very sunny month: the sixth sunniest February on record. Hunstanton saw 133 hours of sunshine, and the average for England and Wales was 133 hours. The last month better was 2000, which won only because of the presence of a leap day. Average temperatures overall. A cold start, with some heavy snow in places. East Anglia saw 10 cm on the 1st, and 25 cm in the Scottish Highlands during the 3-5th. -10.9C at Tulloch Bridge on the 5th. There was a relative humidity of only 7% at Great Dun Fell on the 17th. It was 15.7C in London on the 26th.