MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for SEP. 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 13.4 20.3 16:30 7.8 5:00 2.8 0.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 2 14.7 22.0 16:30 8.7 7:00 2.4 1.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 3 15.0 19.3 14:30 11.1 6:30 1.3 0.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 4 15.7 21.0 14:30 13.1 3:00 0.9 1.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 5 14.7 18.6 11:30 11.1 24:00 1.4 0.5 2.6 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 6 11.5 14.2 13:00 9.3 23:30 4.0 0.0 4.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 7 11.9 16.2 16:00 8.8 7:30 3.6 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 8 13.2 16.9 16:00 10.6 3:00 2.5 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 9 13.4 15.4 19:00 11.0 6:30 2.1 0.0 17.8 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 10 15.2 19.3 15:30 12.4 7:30 1.1 0.8 0.2 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 11 14.6 20.3 15:30 10.1 5:00 2.0 1.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 12 16.2 18.7 17:00 14.8 23:00 0.2 0.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 13 15.4 17.2 16:30 14.1 24:00 0.5 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 14 13.2 14.3 0:30 12.6 24:00 2.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 15 13.4 16.2 17:00 11.8 7:30 2.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 16 13.6 15.0 15:00 12.1 5:00 1.9 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 17 14.0 16.2 17:30 12.8 23:30 1.5 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 18 13.0 14.9 14:30 11.2 7:00 2.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 19 14.1 17.3 15:30 11.9 7:00 1.7 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 20 13.5 15.8 14:00 10.3 24:00 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 21 12.8 16.7 15:00 8.5 6:00 2.9 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 22 11.7 13.7 15:00 10.4 24:00 3.8 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 23 11.4 14.6 13:30 8.9 7:30 4.1 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 24 11.3 15.3 17:30 8.2 8:00 4.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 25 12.0 15.1 15:00 9.6 7:00 3.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 26 12.3 15.5 16:30 8.8 8:00 3.2 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 27 14.0 16.8 15:30 11.7 8:00 1.6 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 28 14.1 15.6 16:30 12.4 7:30 1.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 29 14.1 17.8 17:00 11.9 6:30 1.8 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- 30 13.5 19.9 16:00 9.1 8:00 2.7 0.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:30 --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.6 22.0 2 7.8 1 67.9 10.1 27.6 0.0 0.0 1 --- (+0.9) (48%) Max >= 32.0: 0 Max <= 0.0: 0 Min <= 0.0: 0 Min <= -18.0: 0 Max Rain: 17.80 ON 9/09/02 Days of Rain: 8 (> .2 mm) 3 (> 2 mm) 0 (> 20 mm) Heat Base: 15.5 Cool Base: 15.5 Method: Integration Mostly a very anticyclonic month: overall warm and very dry. However, there was severe flooding in the Inverness region at the start of the month. The 9th was a very wet day across the south and the east, with Swanage recording 121.5 mm of rain. The depression responsible for this gave rise to gales in the English channel and the SE. An anticyclone then settled across the country and most of the country was mostly dry. The warmest day was the 13th, with 26C at Bournemouth. The temperature fell to -3C at Tulloch Bridge on the morning of the 24th. The last three days were very warm, with 23C at Prestatyn on the 30th. Most of the month's rain across the country fell on the 9th. The month had the fewest number of rain days since 1959. It was particularly dry in Scotland and Northern Ireland; Plymouth only had 4 mm of rain, and Aberdeen 16 mm - both local records. It was a very sunny month in the west and south, less so in parts of the east. Very sunny at Morecambe (only bettered by 1991, 1959, and 1933.