MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for NOV. 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 9.5 12.6 14:50 6.0 1:30 8.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 2 10.7 12.8 13:10 9.0 8:20 7.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 3 9.5 11.8 9:30 4.8 23:50 8.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 4 7.8 11.8 14:40 4.7 1:20 10.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 5 6.7 10.5 23:20 2.7 7:10 11.5 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 6 9.0 11.1 13:40 6.8 21:20 9.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 7 7.2 8.2 14:20 6.3 22:30 11.0 0.0 2.8 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 8 2.2 6.4 0:10 0.8 18:50 16.0 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 9 1.3 2.9 14:30 -0.2 24:00 17.0 0.0 2.2 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 10 7.4 11.3 14:30 -0.3 0:20 10.9 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 11 11.6 13.3 12:10 9.5 24:00 6.7 0.0 3.4 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 12 7.7 10.7 11:30 3.7 24:00 10.5 0.0 2.2 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 13 3.1 4.9 14:20 2.0 21:10 15.2 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 14 4.0 6.6 13:10 2.3 24:00 14.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 15 7.4 11.6 13:50 2.2 0:10 10.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 16 7.1 8.7 14:00 4.2 5:10 11.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 17 7.0 7.7 13:30 6.5 22:10 11.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 18 7.1 8.2 14:00 6.2 6:00 11.2 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 19 7.1 7.8 12:30 5.4 23:30 11.2 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 20 7.7 10.1 13:30 4.1 8:50 10.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 21 10.6 12.7 12:10 8.1 24:00 7.7 0.0 1.2 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 22 5.1 8.1 0:10 2.5 24:00 13.1 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 23 3.9 7.6 23:10 0.9 3:20 14.3 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 24 11.1 13.1 12:30 7.3 0:10 7.2 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 25 8.8 11.6 4:10 3.6 24:00 9.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 26 3.9 7.4 14:00 1.3 22:50 14.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 27 3.2 5.9 11:20 1.3 0:10 15.1 0.0 4.4 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 28 5.7 9.2 19:30 2.2 0:50 12.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 29 9.6 11.6 14:00 8.5 20:00 8.7 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 30 10.7 13.8 18:37 7.7 1:50 3.9 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.1 13.8 30 -0.3 10 330.7 0.0 24.8 0.0 0.0 1 --- (+1.0) (40%) Max >= 32.0: 0 Max <= 0.0: 0 Min <= 0.0: 2 Min <= -18.0: 0 Max Rain: 4.40 ON 27/11/01 Days of Rain: 12 (> .2 mm) 6 (> 2 mm) 0 (> 20 mm) Heat Base: 18.3 Cool Base: 18.3 Method: Integration Mainly dry and mild, especially in the SE. The driest since 1990. Mainly anticyclonic and sunny until the 24th; dull and wet last week. The average pressure was the highest in the last 50 years. There was heavy rain in the SE on the 6th and 7th, with 35 mm at Hampstead. There was then an early Arctic snap, with snow in the north on the 8th, and as far as the SE on the 9th. This is the earliest snowfall in the SE since November 1980. Furthermore, consider the contrast of maximum temperatures of about 3C in the south in this spell with 21C nine days earlier. -5C at Benson (Oxon) on the 10th and 14th. The month ended with warm SWs: 16.9C at Hawarden (Chester) on the 30th, an extremely high reading for so late in the year.