MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for SEP. 2006 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 17.4 20.6 15:30 15.0 7:30 0.0 1.8 2.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- 2 14.7 17.2 18:00 13.3 14:00 1.0 0.2 13.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 3 15.9 20.7 13:30 13.3 4:30 0.8 1.3 0.4 0.0 0.0 --- --- 4 16.3 19.9 15:30 14.3 7:30 0.4 1.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 5 16.3 20.8 15:00 12.8 7:00 0.9 1.7 7.4 0.0 0.0 --- --- 6 18.0 20.8 15:30 14.1 00:00 0.1 2.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 7 14.0 17.1 16:00 12.1 5:00 1.6 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 8 13.7 20.1 16:30 8.6 6:30 2.7 0.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 9 14.2 20.9 16:30 10.1 3:30 2.3 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 10 12.2 12.5 0:30 12.0 1:00 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 11 20.0 22.7 18:00 18.2 23:30 0.0 1.2 2.8 0.0 0.0 --- --- 12 18.3 22.7 16:30 16.2 8:00 0.0 2.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 13 18.2 22.9 16:30 15.4 2:30 0.0 2.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 14 17.0 20.1 16:30 14.6 00:00 0.1 1.6 15.4 0.0 0.0 --- --- 15 15.3 19.2 15:30 12.6 7:30 0.9 0.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 16 15.9 18.8 16:00 13.9 4:30 0.5 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 17 16.8 21.3 14:30 14.7 8:30 0.2 1.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 18 15.3 19.5 16:30 11.3 7:30 1.1 1.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 --- --- 19 14.0 17.4 16:00 11.9 7:00 1.5 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 20 15.6 20.2 16:30 11.3 7:00 1.3 1.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 21 19.8 27.1 16:30 14.2 7:00 0.2 4.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 22 18.2 20.4 0:30 16.0 7:00 0.0 0.8 10.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 23 15.7 17.8 17:00 13.8 12:00 0.2 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 24 16.2 19.1 17:30 14.8 0:30 0.1 0.8 4.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 25 15.6 17.2 14:00 13.6 7:30 0.5 0.6 1.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 26 15.1 18.4 16:30 12.1 7:00 1.1 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 27 14.7 16.9 17:00 12.7 8:00 1.1 0.3 0.4 0.0 0.0 --- --- 28 15.3 17.1 14:30 13.7 7:30 0.5 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.0 --- --- 29 14.3 16.6 13:00 11.8 8:00 1.3 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- 30 13.2 17.7 15:30 8.9 8:00 2.5 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.9 27.1 21 8.6 8 23.1 33.2 57.6 0.0 0.0 --- --- (+3.2) (100%) Max >= 32.0: 0 Max <= 0.0: 0 Min <= 0.0: 0 Min <= -18.0: 0 Max Rain: 15.39 ON 14/09/06 Days of Rain: 12 (> .2 mm) 7 (> 2 mm) 0 (> 20 mm) Heat Base: 15.5 Cool Base: 15.5 Method: Integration At 16.6C, the equal warmest on record (with 1729). A very southerly month. Very dry, sunny, and warm until the 21st, particularly in the south and east until the 21st, more unsettled after that. After an unsettled first week and it became drier and warmer. It reached 28C at Margate on the 6th - the highest temperature anywhere in the UK since 6 August. As the heat continued to build, it reached 30.2C at Heathrow on the 11th. The heat triggered a few violent storms in the south and Midlands. Some severe weather around on the 14th, with thunderstorms and several small tornadoes in northern Britain. It reached 29.0C at Sutton Bonington (East Midlads) on the 21st, the latest temperature so late in the year since 1985. Overall quite sunny and dry, but the last ten days stopped it from being exceptionally so.