MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for OCT. 2000 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 12.6 16.2 14:30 10.6 2:00 5.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 2 11.8 16.1 15:00 8.1 24:00 6.5 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 3 12.3 16.5 16:00 7.8 3:00 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 4 12.6 15.4 16:00 10.1 8:30 5.7 0.0 2.4 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 5 9.7 13.0 15:00 7.7 8:30 8.6 0.0 4.6 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 6 8.7 11.7 15:00 5.9 5:30 9.5 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 7 8.8 9.7 22:30 7.6 8:30 9.5 0.0 12.6 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 8 8.9 12.7 14:30 5.9 9:00 9.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 9 6.6 9.0 19:00 3.2 7:00 11.7 0.0 10.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 10 7.1 10.3 13:30 4.4 24:00 11.2 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 11 6.2 9.3 16:00 3.4 5:30 12.1 0.0 14.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 12 8.6 12.2 15:00 6.0 0:30 9.7 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 13 9.9 13.0 16:30 7.9 4:30 8.4 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 14 10.3 12.6 14:30 8.2 5:00 8.0 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 15 10.2 13.6 16:30 5.6 8:00 8.1 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 16 10.5 13.1 16:00 8.9 24:00 7.7 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 17 9.2 13.1 15:00 5.4 8:30 9.1 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 18 10.8 14.2 14:00 8.1 23:00 7.5 0.0 1.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 19 8.1 12.2 15:00 5.2 24:00 10.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 20 7.7 11.1 17:00 3.7 6:00 10.6 0.0 1.4 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 21 8.7 11.7 16:30 4.5 24:00 9.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 22 5.9 9.5 14:30 1.2 8:00 12.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 23 10.5 13.4 15:00 8.2 2:30 7.8 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 24 9.9 11.1 12:30 8.9 4:00 8.4 0.0 1.6 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 25 10.0 11.5 12:30 7.9 24:00 8.2 0.0 1.6 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 26 8.5 11.1 15:30 6.5 5:00 9.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 27 9.7 14.3 13:30 7.5 0:30 8.6 0.0 2.8 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 28 8.6 12.8 17:00 6.3 4:00 9.7 0.0 8.4 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 29 6.8 8.7 11:30 3.9 23:30 11.5 0.0 8.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 30 4.4 6.3 16:00 1.5 11:00 13.9 0.0 18.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 31 5.6 9.9 14:30 2.4 4:00 12.7 0.0 1.6 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.0 16.5 3 1.2 22 287.8 0.0 95.0 0.0 0.0 1 --- (-0.8) (181%) Max >= 32.0: 0 Max <= 0.0: 0 Min <= 0.0: 0 Min <= -18.0: 0 Max Rain: 18.20 ON 30/10/00 Days of Rain: 20 (> .2 mm) 10 (> 2 mm) 0 (> 20 mm) Heat Base: 18.3 Cool Base: 18.3 Method: Integration The second wettest October in a century - equally as wet as 1987, but not as wet as 1903, with an average of 181 mm across England and Wales. Scotland and Northern Ireland were also wet, but not so extraordinarily so. It was an exceptional month. Parts of Sussex saw about 380 mm of rain. Exceptional flooding midmonth in the SE. Heavy rain affected Kent and East Sussex. 143.8 mm fell at Plumpton (Sussex) in 24 hours up to 6pm on the 12th, 120 mm of it in 12 hours, with many sites in the region recording more than 100 mm. The flooding particularly affected the rivers Uck and Ouse. Parts of Lewes had to be evacuated. A severe and damaging tornado hit Bognor Regis on Saturday 28th. A severe gale affected the south coast on the night of the 29-30th, with a central pressure of 950 mb over Yorkshire; this is a record low pressure for England. In its wake, there was even some snow - 4 cms in the early morning of the 30th on high ground in east Lancashire. Snow fell but did not settle across much of the north - only the second time that there was October snow or sleet since records began at Leeming (Yorks.). Six tornadoes touched down within minutes of each other along the Hampshire and Sussex coasts on the morning of the 30th, causing damage and even injury.Overall it was quite a sunny month in the east and north, but dull in the west and south. Average temperatures.