MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for SEP. 2003 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 13.2 16.7 18:00 10.7 7:00 2.5 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 2 13.9 18.1 16:00 8.9 6:00 2.2 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 3 15.8 20.4 17:00 11.7 6:00 1.1 1.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 4 16.1 22.5 17:00 10.2 6:00 1.5 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 5 16.1 21.3 15:00 10.8 7:00 1.3 1.9 0.4 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 6 13.5 15.2 12:00 10.4 24:00 2.0 0.0 8.4 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 7 13.0 19.2 17:00 7.8 7:00 3.1 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 8 13.7 17.3 14:00 10.6 7:00 2.2 0.4 3.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 9 13.1 16.8 15:00 10.1 5:00 2.5 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 10 13.4 17.3 16:00 11.0 24:00 2.3 0.2 0.6 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 11 12.8 17.1 18:00 8.2 7:00 2.9 0.2 0.4 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 12 14.0 19.9 16:00 9.9 5:00 2.1 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 13 16.5 23.6 16:00 11.5 5:00 1.4 2.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 14 17.6 24.1 17:00 12.4 8:00 0.6 2.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 15 17.8 23.1 15:00 14.8 24:00 0.0 2.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 16 16.4 22.9 16:00 11.4 7:00 1.1 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 17 17.2 23.3 16:00 11.6 8:00 1.1 2.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 18 17.5 19.4 16:00 16.0 24:00 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 19 15.5 17.8 16:00 13.8 8:00 0.6 0.5 8.8 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 20 13.2 14.3 1:00 10.6 24:00 2.3 0.0 12.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 21 12.8 18.4 18:00 6.6 7:00 3.2 0.6 0.2 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 22 11.9 15.9 9:00 7.6 24:00 3.7 0.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 23 8.1 12.1 17:00 5.4 8:00 7.4 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 24 9.6 15.2 16:00 4.8 5:00 5.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 25 11.6 15.2 14:00 8.1 7:00 3.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 26 12.4 14.7 16:00 9.8 24:00 3.1 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 27 10.9 15.4 16:00 7.6 9:00 4.6 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 28 10.5 13.5 17:00 8.2 24:00 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 29 10.3 13.7 15:00 7.2 4:00 5.2 0.0 2.2 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- 30 12.8 15.8 15:00 10.3 8:00 2.7 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 1:00 --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.7 24.1 14 4.8 24 77.8 23.6 43.8 0.0 0.0 1 --- (+1.0) (76%) Max >= 32.0: 0 Max <= 0.0: 0 Min <= 0.0: 0 Min <= -18.0: 0 Max Rain: 12.00 ON 20/09/03 Days of Rain: 9 (> .2 mm) 6 (> 2 mm) 0 (> 20 mm) Heat Base: 15.5 Cool Base: 15.5 Method: Integration The sunniest September since at least 1964, with England and Wales averaging over 6 hours of sunshine a day. It was also a dry month, as you might expect from the sunshine totals: 47% of the average, with some places on the south coast seeing much less, and some places hardly any. It was also warm at the beginning (with 5 consecutive days over 80F from the 13th). There was also a notable late heatwave, from the 13th to the 22nd, particularly in the southeast, peaking with 28.4C at Gravesend on the 17th (the latest reading over 80F since 1985). It was much cooler and unsettled from the 22nd. There were also some cool nights: -3.5C at Strathardle (Perthshire) on the 24th, and temperatures close to -3C in southern England - the lowest September minima here since the famous September of 1919. The month's maxima were the highest since 1959, and the minima the lowest since 1993.