***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1972 MONTH JUNE .... ALL TEMPERATURES MINUS C.... DAY TEMPERATURE C PCPN AVG WIND FASTEST SUN SKY STN WX MAX MIN AVG SPEED MILE SHINE COVER PRESS DIR MPH SPD DIR HRS 1 55.9 67.2 58.2 0 110 8.9 14 080 0.0 8 676.3 2 55.0 60.0 57.5 T 040 8.3 16 030 0.0 4 680.2 IC,SG 3 53.9 65.3 64.0 T 150 12.6 18 120 0.0 0 684.1 IC 4 47.0 66.7 57.2 T 080 18.1 22 100 0.0 2 682.9 IC,BS 5 40.3 60.6 43.1 T 040 21.0 24 040 0.0 8 686.5 IC,SG,BS 6 40.6 53.6 51.8 T 030 18.3 25 040 0.0 2 693.1 SG,BS 7 50.6 57.2 54.7 T 050 15.5 21 040 0.0 0 695.1 IC,BS 8 52.8 60.8 58.2 T 050 14.7 22 040 0.0 0 696.4 IC 9 58.3 64.2 61.4 T 120 15.5 18 120 0.0 0 689.2 IC 10 59.2 65.0 62.5 T 120 14.7 16 070 0.0 0 685.4 IC 11 56.4 63.9 57.8 T 040 15.8 18 030 0.0 0 686.8 IC 12 53.9 59.4 57.8 T 050 16.4 22 030 0.0 0 684.7 IC 13 52.0 63.3 56.5 T 030 16.7 22 050 0.0 0 687.2 IC 14 45.6 59.4 51.4 T 030 19.3 31 030 0.0 0 690.7 IC,BS 15 51.1 59.7 57.5 T 040 15.3 22 040 0.0 0 688.1 IC,BS 16 56.4 61.1 59.1 T 060 16.1 18 080 0.0 0 679.2 IC 17 51.1 62.2 54.3 T 060 19.0 25 030 0.0 0 682.2 IC,BS 18 53.9 61.7 57.2 T 050 11.8 24 030 0.0 4 687.7 IC,IF,BS 19 53.6 58.3 55.3 0 060 13.9 17 080 0.0 8 690.3 IF 20 53.3 57.5 55.7 T 050 17.2 20 060 0.0 4 690.2 SG 21 53.9 66.4 62.9 T 070 16.4 21 080 0.0 0 679.8 SG,BS 22 62.2 67.2 63.6 0 100 16.1 20 070 0.0 0 681.7 23 60.8 64.4 62.2 0 070 14.7 20 060 0.0 0 681.6 24 58.9 65.3 64.3 0 070 13.5 22 050 0.0 0 689.8 25 60.3 66.7 62.5 0 080 10.0 17 070 0.0 2 694.6 26 48.6 65.6 54.0 T 130 11.2 16 090 0.0 2 690.7 SG 27 48.3 60.3 57.9 T 120 18.6 25 120 0.0 4 684.6 SG,BS 28 54.4 63.1 60.0 0 120 13.3 24 120 0.0 6 671.4 BS 29 58.3 67.0 65.7 0 080 12.4 16 070 0.0 2 679.8 30 60.8 68.3 66.0 0 080 9.7 14 080 0.0 2 681.3 AVG 53.6 62.7 58.4 T 050 14.8 31 030 0.0 2 685.7 14th AVG MONTHLY -58.4 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 22 HIGHEST -40.3 ON 5th SUNSHINE 0.0/ 0% PARTLY CLOUDY 05 LOWEST -68.3 ON 30th CLOUDY 03 HIGH PRESSURE 696.9 ON 8th LOW PRESSURE 669.8 ON 28th NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: +0.28 inches The following data was changed from the old LCD: All Average Temps recalculated for 24hrs instead of Max+Min/2. Individual Data changed to reflect extremes from LCD and NCDC Data. All Average Sky Cover changed to reflect data from 00Z through 00Z daily. All Sky Cover changed to Octas. Peak wind speed, peak wind direction, precipitation, sunshine amount, and present wx reported in NZST. Insufficient data to convert these values to UTC. All temperature, wind, and pressure data taken from NCDC data. LCD data originally reported in NZST. Changed Extremes: From To Max T -40.6 -40.3 Min T Changed Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 54.9 53.6 Avg Wnd Spd 14.7 14.8 Avg Press 685.8 685.7 Min T 62.2 62.7 Max Press Fastest Wnd MPH 30.0 31.0 Avg T 58.5 58.4 Min Press 670.2 669.8 Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 1 4 5 10 11 13 16 19 23 25 26 30 From: 59.4 60.6 41.7 60.6 56.7 57.2 57.2 55.0 61.1 63.3 51.7 66.1 To: 55.9 47.0 40.3 59.2 56.4 52.0 56.4 53.6 60.8 60.3 48.6 60.8 Min Temp Day 3 6 8 9 15 20 21 24 27 28 29 From: 64.4 51.7 58.9 62.2 58.3 56.7 62.2 65.0 60.0 61.7 66.1 To: 65.3 53.6 60.8 64.2 59.7 57.5 66.4 65.3 60.3 63.1 67.0 Avg Temp Day 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 From: 63.3 59.2 63.6 51.1 46.1 53.9 55.8 60.3 62.8 60.3 56.7 60.3 52.5 54.7 59.2 56.7 To: 58.2 64.0 57.2 43.1 51.8 54.7 58.2 61.4 62.5 57.8 57.8 56.5 51.4 57.5 59.1 54.3 Day 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 From: 57.8 56.7 55.0 58.1 64.7 62.8 61.9 65.0 58.6 54.2 58.1 62.2 67.2 To: 57.2 55.3 55.7 62.9 63.6 62.2 64.3 62.5 54.0 57.9 60.0 65.7 66.0 Number of NCDC observations per day: 4