MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for OCT. 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 14.4 17.0 14:30 12.2 3:20 3.9 0.0 5.2 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 2 14.2 16.7 15:20 12.7 4:30 4.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 3 13.1 16.2 12:50 11.2 24:00 5.2 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 4 12.6 16.8 15:50 9.2 7:10 5.6 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 5 14.0 17.1 15:50 11.7 1:40 4.3 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 6 13.1 16.1 16:00 10.2 7:50 5.2 0.0 4.6 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 7 12.3 15.3 13:40 10.2 7:20 5.9 0.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 8 11.5 13.4 14:10 9.4 3:00 6.8 0.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 9 11.8 14.9 13:30 9.4 7:20 6.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 10 13.0 15.5 10:50 10.3 0:10 5.2 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 11 13.8 17.0 14:10 9.3 5:20 4.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 12 15.5 18.8 14:30 12.3 24:00 2.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 13 14.1 15.8 16:50 12.2 0:20 4.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 14 14.3 16.3 15:50 13.1 3:00 4.0 0.0 1.4 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 15 13.5 16.4 14:00 9.6 21:30 4.8 0.0 2.6 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 16 9.7 12.2 19:20 7.6 6:30 4.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 17 12.0 15.9 14:20 9.3 8:30 6.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 18 13.4 15.6 15:50 10.3 24:00 4.8 0.0 15.2 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 19 10.9 13.4 23:40 7.9 6:20 7.3 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 20 13.6 15.2 16:20 11.6 24:00 4.7 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 21 11.5 12.2 18:20 10.7 9:30 6.7 0.0 23.2 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 22 11.5 13.0 17:00 10.1 20:30 6.7 0.0 7.2 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 23 12.2 14.6 15:20 10.7 2:10 6.1 0.0 10.8 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 24 11.0 14.3 15:20 8.4 24:00 7.2 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 25 11.1 14.3 15:10 8.0 4:20 7.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 26 10.3 11.8 0:10 8.7 8:50 7.9 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 27 10.4 13.4 14:30 8.0 9:10 7.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 28 9.4 12.3 13:40 6.9 7:30 8.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 29 11.9 14.2 20:50 9.1 0:10 6.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 30 14.1 16.3 11:30 10.8 23:10 4.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- 31 8.6 10.8 0:10 6.9 22:40 9.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:10 --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.4 18.8 12 6.9 31 179.4 0.0 92.2 0.0 0.0 1 --- (+2.9) (162%) Max >= 32.0: 0 Max <= 0.0: 0 Min <= 0.0: 0 Min <= -18.0: 0 Max Rain: 23.20 ON 21/10/01 Days of Rain: 18 (> .2 mm) 9 (> 2 mm) 1 (> 20 mm) Heat Base: 18.3 Cool Base: 18.3 Method: Integration What a month! With a CET of 13.3C, easily the warmest ever recorded! Goodbye 1969. In some places, October was warmer than September 2001. Unusually for a very warm month, it was generally duller than average in many places, although quite sunny in eastern and northwestern England and Wales. It was also wet (60% above the England and Wales average) - but nowhere near as wet as October 2000. The month had a violently disturbed start, with gales, heavy rain, and thunder. There was some heavy rain, flash floods, hail, and strong winds on the 1st and 2nd. The 6th was a lively day. A tornado swept through the Norfolk Broads, damaging roofs in the villages of Repps-with-Bastwick and Potter Heigham, and uprooting trees and electricity poles, and generating a waterspout on the River Thurne. A large waterspout was spotted off the Suffolk coast near Sizewell. On the same day 7 mm hail fell on Leicester, as thunderstorms and sharp showers crossed Britain. On the 7th there were more gales and heavy rain: 28.6 mm fell at Hurn in one hour early in the afternoon. There was flooding in Sussex and Kent on the 7th. Mild midmonth, with temperatures exceeding 21C, including 25.3C at Herne Bay in Kent on the 13th. Some very wet weather affected eastern districts on the weekend of the 20-21st: there was flooding in the West Midlands and North Wales, and then 82.2 mm fell at Cambridge on the 21st, leading to localised flooding in the Fens. On the 24th another tornado damaged the roofs of houses and overturned lorries at Westbury (Wilts.). It was very warm at the end: 20C at Hawarden and 21C at Guernsey on the 30th. Nowhere in the country reported an air frost this month - this has never happened before. Indeed, with such a SW/w month, nighttime minima were particularly high.