MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for MAY. 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 8.2 12.6 15:00 4.6 5:00 7.3 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 2 8.9 13.6 17:00 4.7 5:00 6.6 0.0 1.6 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 3 7.7 10.6 18:00 5.2 3:00 7.8 0.0 1.8 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 4 8.6 13.0 15:00 5.3 6:00 6.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 5 8.5 12.6 15:00 4.7 6:00 6.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 6 9.2 10.0 14:00 7.8 9:00 4.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 9:00 --- 7 9.1 10.9 13:00 7.9 5:00 6.4 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 8 9.2 10.8 16:00 8.3 24:00 6.3 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 9 7.7 8.3 1:00 7.0 5:00 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 10 11.6 17.8 16:30 7.8 3:30 4.1 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 11 11.7 15.7 17:00 8.7 23:00 3.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 12 11.2 16.1 15:30 6.3 6:30 4.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 13 11.5 13.0 16:00 10.2 6:30 4.0 0.0 4.8 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 14 11.4 14.6 16:00 8.8 7:00 4.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 15 11.8 16.1 18:30 9.2 6:30 3.7 0.0 1.6 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 16 17.0 24.0 17:00 10.2 5:00 1.2 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 17 12.4 16.2 17:53 9.7 24:00 1.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 18 10.3 12.1 17:30 9.4 7:30 5.2 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 19 13.4 17.9 16:00 9.2 3:00 2.3 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 20 12.5 13.7 0:30 11.6 5:30 1.1 0.0 1.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 21 13.8 19.1 16:00 10.2 6:30 2.3 0.5 7.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 22 14.1 17.6 16:00 11.7 24:00 1.6 0.2 3.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 23 13.1 16.5 17:00 10.3 6:00 2.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 24 11.2 14.4 12:30 9.1 7:00 4.3 0.0 4.4 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 25 11.2 15.1 16:00 9.5 3:30 4.3 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 26 9.9 14.0 16:30 8.0 17:00 5.6 0.0 12.6 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 27 11.2 15.6 17:30 7.2 7:30 4.3 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 28 11.6 16.1 13:30 8.3 6:00 3.9 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 29 11.5 14.3 13:00 9.3 4:00 4.0 0.0 1.6 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 30 11.6 15.4 16:30 8.9 24:00 3.9 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 31 11.9 16.7 16:30 6.6 6:00 3.8 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.0 24.0 16 4.6 1 131.0 1.6 51.8 0.0 0.0 1 --- (+0.9) (105%) Max >= 32.0: 0 Max <= 0.0: 0 Min <= 0.0: 0 Min <= -18.0: 0 Max Rain: 12.60 ON 26/05/02 Days of Rain: 16 (> .2 mm) 7 (> 2 mm) 0 (> 20 mm) Heat Base: 15.5 Cool Base: 15.5 Method: Integration Changeable and very wet (but not as wet as 2000), with the second half being particularly wet. The first eleven days saw fairly settled if unexcitig conditions. There was a short heatwave midmonth. On the 16th, it reached 27C at Kensington in London, while it reached 28.5C at St Helier on Jersey. The night of the 16th-17th was exceptionally warm in the west; at Llanbedr the overnight minimum was 18.6C. Dawlish had 51 mm of rain in 24 hours on the 17th. There was a gale in the south and west on the 24th. The west was wettest; Shap saw 270 mm of rain. It was slightly warmer than average overall, and very slightly less sunny.