MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for JAN. 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 -0.7 1.9 14:00 -4.9 24:00 19.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 2 -4.7 -3.4 12:00 -6.4 8:00 23.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 3 -1.1 1.3 14:00 -5.0 2:00 19.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 4 -1.9 0.1 1:00 -3.2 9:00 20.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 5 0.7 3.3 22:00 -1.9 1:00 17.6 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 6 -0.2 0.9 1:00 -1.4 9:00 18.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 7 2.1 3.1 18:00 0.5 1:00 16.2 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 8 2.7 3.6 14:00 1.2 24:00 15.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 9 1.6 3.1 14:00 0.7 18:00 16.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 10 2.0 2.4 15:00 1.6 10:00 16.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 11 2.4 7.5 24:00 -0.6 5:00 15.9 0.0 6.6 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 12 6.5 8.3 3:00 3.5 20:00 11.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 13 7.0 8.6 17:00 5.7 24:00 11.2 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 14 6.8 8.7 18:00 4.2 4:00 11.5 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 15 4.5 6.7 1:00 2.6 22:00 13.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 16 6.0 8.8 23:00 1.9 6:00 12.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 17 7.6 9.0 1:00 4.6 21:00 9.3 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 18 19 20 21 10.2 12.2 14:00 7.3 1:00 8.0 0.0 1.6 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 22 6.8 9.9 1:00 5.8 17:00 11.5 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 23 7.3 8.7 22:00 5.1 2:00 11.0 0.0 3.6 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 24 5.1 8.6 1:00 0.7 24:00 13.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 25 2.3 8.2 22:00 -0.4 8:00 16.0 0.0 4.6 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 26 7.8 9.8 14:00 6.7 9:00 10.4 0.0 3.8 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 27 7.0 11.1 22:00 4.9 8:00 11.3 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 28 8.8 10.1 1:00 7.4 10:00 9.4 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 29 9.2 11.7 14:00 6.6 22:00 9.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 30 7.9 10.2 14:00 5.1 4:00 10.4 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 31 6.3 9.0 19:00 4.6 8:00 12.0 0.0 3.4 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.3 12.2 21 -6.4 2 390.5 0.0 28.6 0.0 0.0 1 --- (+0.9) (51%) Max >= 32.0: 0 Max <= 0.0: 1 Min <= 0.0: 8 Min <= -18.0: 0 Max Rain: 6.60 ON 11/01/02 Days of Rain: 11 (> .2 mm) 5 (> 2 mm) 0 (> 20 mm) Heat Base: 18.3 Cool Base: 18.3 Method: Integration A cold start. A very cold New Year, with -10.6C at Sennybridge (Powys) on the 1st, and then -13.6C at Glenlivet on the morning of the 2nd; many places stayed beneath freezing all day, with the maximum at Leeming (Yorks.) on the 2nd only -4C. It then became very mild. The final two weeks were very wet. There was an exceptional gale in Scotland on the 28th: a gust of 115 mph at Cairngorm; 82 mph at Edinburgh airport. Close to home, some exceptional gusts included 108 mph on the Forth Bridge, and 99 mph on the Tay Road Bridge. 7 people died in the gales: a reminder that much as some of us enjoy severe weather, it can bring tragic consequences to some. Overall it was very wet in the NW and quite sunny in the SE. In spite of the cold start it was a mild month overall (the warmest since 1993), but the second half was exceptionally mild.