 News about Ferryhill Weather
June 2007
This month has proved to be quite a wet one, with 80.0mm of rain falling (although 111.8mm recorded in
Durham) - not a remarkably high total (146% of the 1971-2000 mean), but considering the first 11 days of the month were completely
dry it's quite noteable. Only two dry days were experienced after that. It could have been much wetter, the extreme weather which caused
extensive flooding in South Yorkshire towards the end of the month stayed just to the south of us in Ferryhill.
One thing that has been noteable about June 2007 is it's extreme dullness. It was one of the dullest Junes in North East
England - the total of 101.5hrs made it the 4th dullest since 1882 and the worst sunshine total since 1987 (89.4hrs). It was less sunny than
May, which was itself less sunny than April. It was thought this ‘reverse’ sequence must be unique, but in fact it has now happened 7
times in the April-June period since 1882.
April 2007
Yet another record breaker, April 2007 was a whopping 0.6 degC warmer than the previous warmest April (1865) on the Central England Temperature series. Again, a long term record beaten. Also noteable is the fact that 2006 was the warmest year on record and the first third of this year is more than 2 degC warmer than the equivalent period in 2006. Quite incredible.
September 2006
Another one for the record books, September 2006 is the warmest September on record, beating September 1729 in the CET series. This record had stood for 277 years up to this year, and was the longest running record of any 'warmest month'. Recently broken 'warmest' records are seemingly gathered in the second half of the year, with the longest standing remaining record for July-December resting with December 1974.
The absolute high for September was raised to 27.1 degC on 21st of September 2006. There were no cold nights, and rainfall was slightly above average.
August 2006
A total contrast to July, August was considerably cooler and was generally the second dullest August on record (since 1912, nowhere near as cold though).
July 2006
This month has created history as it is the warmest month on record. The records go back to 1850 at Durham, and this month has beaten July 1983 to the highest monthly mean temperature. To put things into perspective, the average temperature is now 2 degC above that recorded as an average for July 1976, which was regarded as the best summer in living memory. There have been only three days that haven't reached 20 degC in the month, and 14 days consecutively over 25 degC since 16th.
Comparison with other
Julys
| |
2006 |
2005* |
2004 |
2003 |
2002 |
2001 |
2000 |
| |
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|
| Mean Temp |
19.0 |
15.8 |
15.1 |
16.8 |
15.2 |
16.2 |
14.1 |
| Abs Max |
29.9 |
26.9 |
26.1 |
28.3 |
26.2 |
27.1 |
24.1 |
| Days > 25 degC |
18 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
0 |
| Days > 20 degC |
20 |
11 |
12 |
18 |
10 |
18 |
10 |
| Days with Rain |
7 |
5 |
21 |
14 |
18 |
15 |
20 |
| Rainfall Total mm |
14 |
28 |
59 |
51 |
62 |
37 |
43 |
* 5 days missing data
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