MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for JAN. 2001 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 2.9 5.6 22:30 0.7 0:30 15.4 0.0 4.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 2 5.7 6.5 15:30 4.9 24:00 12.6 0.0 10.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 3 3.5 5.4 24:00 1.4 9:30 14.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 4 5.4 6.3 15:00 3.3 24:00 12.9 0.0 1.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 5 2.2 4.4 14:00 -0.3 9:00 16.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 6 3.9 6.4 14:00 0.4 1:00 14.3 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 7 4.9 6.5 13:30 3.4 24:00 13.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 8 4.8 6.8 14:00 3.3 0:30 13.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 9 3.7 5.3 14:00 1.6 9:30 14.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 10 3.0 4.2 14:00 1.8 8:00 15.3 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 11 3.9 4.8 13:30 2.7 6:30 14.4 0.0 1.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 12 5.4 6.3 13:00 4.5 0:30 12.9 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 13 2.8 4.8 0:30 0.2 24:00 15.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 14 0.7 3.1 14:00 -1.2 9:30 17.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 15 1.5 3.1 14:30 -0.4 2:30 16.8 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 16 1.4 2.6 14:30 0.6 2:00 16.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 17 1.7 2.7 14:30 0.9 6:00 16.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 18 1.6 2.1 2:00 1.0 23:30 16.7 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 19 1.3 2.4 17:30 0.0 6:00 16.9 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 20 1.5 3.0 13:00 -0.3 23:30 16.7 0.0 1.8 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 21 0.2 2.0 24:00 -1.2 4:30 18.1 0.0 1.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 22 3.7 6.0 21:30 1.8 2:00 14.6 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 23 5.5 7.8 20:30 3.2 7:00 12.7 0.0 6.4 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 24 5.6 7.3 0:30 3.1 24:00 12.6 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 25 3.5 5.4 15:00 1.8 4:00 14.8 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 26 3.1 4.6 12:30 0.7 23:00 15.2 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 27 3.1 6.2 13:30 0.4 1:00 15.1 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 28 2.4 4.4 14:30 0.2 8:00 15.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 29 2.0 5.1 15:00 -0.3 6:30 16.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 30 1.7 2.6 23:30 0.6 2:00 16.6 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 31 3.2 4.8 15:30 0.8 24:00 15.1 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.1 7.8 23 -1.2 14 470.7 0.0 34.4 0.0 0.0 1 --- (-0.3) (61%) Max >= 32.0: 0 Max <= 0.0: 0 Min <= 0.0: 7 Min <= -18.0: 0 Max Rain: 10.20 ON 2/01/01 Days of Rain: 12 (> .2 mm) 4 (> 2 mm) 0 (> 20 mm) Heat Base: 18.3 Cool Base: 18.3 Method: Integration Exceptionally sunny. With an average of 78.3 hours (34% above average), it was the third sunniest in 125 years (since records began), and the sunniest since 1959. Some places had their sunniest January ever (e.g. Carlisle, Manchester, Birmingham, Coventry). Folkestone had 114 hours. With a mild start and finish, but a cold, anticyclonic spell in the middle, temperatures were a little below average. -14C at Altnaharra on the 18th. Heavy rain in the south on the 26th, with some snow on the northern flank: several cms on the Chilterns. Rainfall was about average over much of England and Wales, but it was very wet along the south coast, extremely wet in the Channel Islands, yet very dry in northeast Scotland: Kinloss only had 11 mm.