***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1972 MONTH OCTOBER .... 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 50.3 62.8 52.8 T 010 18.1 21 010 5.3 8 675.9 SG 2 48.3 55.3 52.4 T 010 14.1 22 010 17.4 5 678.1 IC,SG,IF 3 51.7 57.2 55.3 T 020 17.8 19 020 22.8 6 682.7 IC 4 49.7 56.1 51.3 0 010 23.6 27 010 0.0 8 685.0 IF,BS 5 49.4 59.7 55.7 T 010 14.0 25 010 5.3 5 679.3 SG,IF,BS 6 53.9 60.0 56.7 T 010 11.0 15 010 18.7 6 679.1 IC 7 42.5 57.2 47.7 0 030 16.6 19 350 12.3 8 679.4 IF,BS 8 41.1 49.4 44.6 T 350 16.4 21 350 0.0 8 678.1 SG,IF,BS 9 43.3 50.6 49.3 T 010 12.0 21 360 8.0 3 678.4 SG,IF,BS 10 46.1 51.1 48.8 0 060 12.4 18 020 24.0 1 675.3 11 47.2 54.7 53.2 0 040 13.6 20 360 24.0 3 677.0 12 46.4 58.3 50.8 0 360 17.8 21 360 17.3 6 683.1 BS 13 37.0 51.7 39.2 T 330 19.0 24 330 0.0 8 681.5 SG,IF,BS 14 35.3 40.0 36.8 T 310 12.9 24 330 0.0 8 675.9 SG,IF,BS 15 32.5 42.2 35.0 T 230 11.0 24 210 3.0 7 676.1 SG,IF 16 32.2 37.5 36.6 T 010 9.8 17 220 3.0 8 673.6 SG 17 36.7 47.5 44.3 T 350 8.3 20 360 3.2 8 673.0 SG,IF 18 40.9 49.4 41.8 T 320 17.8 23 320 8.4 8 671.4 SG,IF,BS 19 40.6 50.0 47.9 T 320 10.3 22 320 7.6 7 669.1 SG,IF,BS 20 45.9 48.3 46.5 T 050 17.6 21 050 10.3 8 664.1 SG,IF 21 46.1 49.2 48.5 0 020 16.2 23 030 10.8 7 665.0 IF,BS 22 48.3 51.1 50.1 0 030 17.8 19 030 20.1 3 670.4 IF 23 49.7 50.6 50.0 T 040 19.8 24 020 21.1 4 673.5 IC,IF,BS 24 47.0 51.1 48.3 T 010 20.2 24 010 20.2 7 678.7 IC,IF,BS 25 45.3 48.9 46.1 0 020 17.2 24 010 18.1 7 681.5 BS 26 44.8 46.7 45.3 0 020 16.7 22 020 20.1 4 685.9 BS 27 44.4 46.7 46.1 0 020 20.2 22 010 23.3 5 687.0 IF,BS 28 41.4 46.7 43.2 0 020 21.0 25 010 13.2 3 687.4 IF,BS 29 38.6 44.4 39.3 0 030 23.9 29 030 24.0 4 683.8 IF,BS 30 36.4 40.6 37.5 0 030 21.9 30 030 8.3 8 681.8 BS 31 35.6 39.8 38.5 0 020 24.5 36 020 7.0 5 683.5 BS AVG 43.5 50.2 46.5 T 010 16.6 36 020 12.2 6 677.9 31st AVG MONTHLY -46.5 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 03 HIGHEST -32.2 ON 16th SUNSHINE 376.8/50.6% PARTLY CLOUDY 12 LOWEST -62.8 ON 1st CLOUDY 16 HIGH PRESSURE 689.1 ON 28th LOW PRESSURE 662.5 ON 21st NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: +1.43 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 Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 44.5 43.5 Avg Wnd Spd 16.4 16.6 Avg Press 677.8 677.9 Min T 49.7 50.2 Max Press Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 46.8 46.5 Min Press Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 1 4 7 12 13 14 15 18 20 23 24 25 26 28 29 30 From: 53.3 51.1 48.9 51.7 40.0 36.7 34.4 41.7 46.1 50.0 48.3 46.1 45.0 43.9 38.9 37.8 To: 50.3 49.7 42.5 46.4 37.0 35.3 32.5 40.9 45.9 49.7 47.0 45.3 44.8 41.4 38.6 36.4 Min Temp Day 2 5 11 16 17 21 31 From: 53.3 54.4 53.3 37.2 45.0 48.9 38.9 To: 55.3 59.7 54.7 37.5 47.5 49.2 39.8 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 58.1 50.8 54.4 53.6 51.9 56.9 53.1 45.3 46.9 48.6 50.3 55.0 45.8 38.3 38.3 34.7 To: 52.8 52.4 55.3 51.3 55.7 56.7 47.7 44.6 49.3 48.8 53.2 50.8 39.2 36.8 35.0 36.6 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 From: 40.8 45.6 45.3 47.2 47.5 49.7 50.3 49.7 47.5 45.8 45.6 45.3 41.7 39.2 37.2 To: 44.3 41.8 47.9 46.5 48.5 50.1 50.0 48.3 46.1 45.3 46.1 43.2 39.3 37.5 38.5 Number of NCDC observations per day: 4