MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for OCT. 2005 NAME: Ferryhill CITY: Ferryhill STATE: Co. Durham ELEV: 394 ft LAT: 54° 41' 00" N LONG: 1° 33' 00" 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 11.7 14.7 16:00 9.6 00:00 3.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 2 10.8 14.4 18:00 8.2 7:00 4.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 3 12.3 14.8 15:00 10.6 1:00 2.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 4 12.5 14.2 16:00 10.9 7:00 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 5 12.6 16.7 16:00 10.2 9:00 2.9 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 6 11.2 13.1 17:00 7.7 4:00 4.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 7 13.8 15.3 15:00 12.7 2:00 1.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 8 13.2 14.0 1:00 11.4 18:00 1.7 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 --- --- 9 11.7 12.9 17:00 10.5 00:00 1.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 10 13.2 18.7 16:00 8.3 7:30 2.9 0.6 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 11 14.6 17.7 15:30 12.9 19:00 1.2 0.3 2.8 0.0 0.0 --- --- 12 14.9 18.2 17:00 12.3 00:00 1.2 0.5 16.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 13 11.4 12.8 1:00 9.6 00:00 4.1 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- 14 10.0 12.4 16:00 7.7 7:00 5.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 15 12.9 15.2 16:00 10.9 1:00 2.6 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 16 12.6 15.6 16:00 10.9 4:00 2.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 17 13.3 15.4 15:00 11.4 1:00 2.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 18 12.2 13.8 15:00 11.0 7:00 3.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 19 12.1 14.6 16:00 10.7 00:00 3.4 0.0 3.4 0.0 0.0 --- --- 20 10.7 13.6 16:00 8.8 10:00 4.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 21 10.8 12.6 17:00 9.1 6:00 4.7 0.0 5.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- 22 10.0 11.6 15:00 7.3 00:00 5.5 0.0 5.4 0.0 0.0 --- --- 23 8.7 10.4 17:00 7.1 1:00 6.8 0.0 2.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 24 11.9 15.3 19:00 8.3 4:00 3.5 0.0 20.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 25 11.9 14.8 1:00 10.3 14:00 3.6 0.0 5.4 0.0 0.0 --- --- 26 12.7 14.4 22:00 10.9 8:00 2.9 0.0 1.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- 27 15.2 18.1 16:00 13.3 1:00 0.7 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 28 13.9 16.5 15:00 11.8 00:00 1.6 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 29 12.9 15.4 15:00 10.6 5:00 2.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 30 14.8 16.2 16:00 13.2 00:00 0.7 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 31 11.6 13.2 1:00 9.0 7:00 4.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.3 18.7 10 7.1 23 96.3 1.9 65.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- (+2.8) (115%) Max >= 32.0: 0 Max <= 0.0: 0 Min <= 0.0: 0 Min <= -18.0: 0 Max Rain: 19.99 ON 24/10/05 Days of Rain: 15 (> .2 mm) 8 (> 2 mm) 0 (> 20 mm) Heat Base: 15.5 Cool Base: 15.5 Method: Integration Very warm - with a CET of 13.1C it was almost but not quite as good as the record-breaking month of October 2001. It was consistently warm rather than containing exceptional hot spells, with very little frost. The highest maximum was 23.6C at Herne Bay (Kent) on the 10th. It was also a very wet month, and quite cloudy - the dullest since 1982. At Eskdalemuir the total of 36 hours of sunshine made it the dullest October in a century. There were notable downpours in east Scotland on the 11th and 24th. On the 11th a slow-moving front delineating the boundary betweeen warm, humid air to the south and cold air in the north moved across the country. Milford Haven had 120 mm of rain in 24 hours; 48 hour totals included 140 mm at Milford Haven and 113 mm at Eskdalemuir. It was very warm towards the end of the month, with southerly winds: it reached 22.5C at Kinlochewe (Wester Ross) on the 27th - the latest date at which 22C has been exceeded in the UK.