MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for JUN. 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 15.3 23.1 16:00 7.4 6:30 2.5 2.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 2 15.0 19.9 15:00 10.8 5:00 1.5 1.0 5.6 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 3 13.3 16.3 18:30 8.8 24:00 2.3 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 4 12.0 16.9 16:00 6.1 3:30 3.6 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 5 11.3 12.1 11:00 9.4 6:00 4.2 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 6 13.8 17.1 13:30 11.9 6:30 1.9 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 7 13.0 14.3 11:00 11.9 6:00 2.5 0.0 3.6 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 8 13.8 16.7 17:30 11.6 6:30 1.8 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 9 13.0 16.2 10:30 9.8 23:30 2.5 0.0 1.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 10 11.9 15.3 15:00 9.4 1:30 3.6 0.0 3.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 11 12.0 16.1 18:30 8.3 4:30 3.5 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 12 11.9 17.0 16:00 7.2 5:00 3.7 0.1 0.8 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 13 12.4 15.9 17:00 8.9 5:00 3.1 0.0 1.6 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 14 12.8 17.1 17:30 10.3 6:00 2.8 0.2 24.4 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 15 14.4 18.0 14:00 11.9 3:30 1.4 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 16 15.2 19.0 18:30 10.6 2:00 1.2 1.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 17 18 19 15.8 18.6 18:30 11.8 24:00 0.4 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 8:30 --- 20 15.3 20.8 17:00 11.4 0:30 1.5 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 21 14.2 18.7 15:00 10.9 4:00 1.8 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 22 14.9 18.3 13:30 11.2 24:00 1.2 0.6 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 23 13.5 17.6 16:30 10.5 23:30 2.2 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 24 13.4 16.8 16:00 9.2 5:30 2.3 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 25 14.8 19.4 15:30 9.7 6:00 1.7 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 26 14.2 17.6 15:00 10.8 24:00 1.6 0.3 1.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 27 13.0 17.4 15:00 9.3 5:00 2.7 0.2 0.6 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 28 12.9 17.1 15:30 9.3 3:00 2.7 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 29 13.7 18.2 15:30 9.8 3:30 2.1 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 30 13.0 14.9 10:30 10.6 19:00 2.5 0.0 4.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.6 23.1 1 6.1 4 64.7 10.5 50.8 0.0 0.0 1 --- (+0.7) (92%) Max >= 32.0: 0 Max <= 0.0: 0 Min <= 0.0: 0 Min <= -18.0: 0 Max Rain: 24.40 ON 14/06/02 Days of Rain: 13 (> .2 mm) 5 (> 2 mm) 1 (> 20 mm) Heat Base: 15.5 Cool Base: 15.5 Method: Integration An average month overall. Unsettled, and dominated by low pressure. Very wet in the west and dry in the east. It was a very dull month in Glasgow and Edinburgh. There was a warm spell at the start (with 27C recorded in London on the 2nd, the highest at the beginning of June since 1997; there is a one in four chance of 80F reached being reached in the first week), followed by some violent thunderstorms. A slow-moving low led to low temperatures and rain in the E and SE, and very high temperatures in the far NW: it was 27.6C in Lochcarron (Wester Ross) on the 6th and on Skye on the 7th, but only 10.3C at Loftus (North Yorkshire) on the 5th. Even Shetland saw 22.1C. Meanwhile it was only 12C in parts of England. Thunderstorm in Chester and the WIrral led to flooding on the 14th, and at Leeming 25 mm of rain fell, mostly in one hour. A tornado hit Horsforth, Leeds, damaging houses and gardens. There was a mini-heatwave midmonth, with 29.3C recorded at Cottishall (Norfolk) on the 17th, and 30.1C at Kensington, also on the 17th. A dust devil disturbed Royal Ascot on the 20th. it was the wettest June in Glasgow since the start of the twentieth century.