***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1972 MONTH NOVEMBER .... 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 37.8 42.8 40.3 0 030 23.2 32 020 12.2 7 680.7 2 34.4 39.4 37.5 T 020 17.5 29 020 14.6 7 682.0 IC 3 33.9 39.4 36.5 T 020 20.0 26 010 13.0 7 683.1 IC 4 35.6 39.4 38.4 0 030 19.1 23 010 18.4 3 680.5 5 36.1 38.9 36.9 0 020 21.8 25 010 24.0 0 678.5 IF,BS 6 36.1 39.8 37.8 0 020 19.6 30 020 24.0 2 679.6 IF,BS 7 36.7 40.0 38.1 T 050 16.6 30 020 24.0 0 680.5 IC,IF,BS 8 37.2 41.1 40.0 0 040 8.0 22 050 24.0 3 680.8 9 39.4 42.0 40.9 0 150 9.2 15 110 24.0 4 678.2 10 38.1 42.8 40.4 0 110 9.5 14 060 19.5 7 679.5 11 37.5 41.7 38.3 0 060 10.0 17 040 11.5 7 679.0 12 37.2 40.0 39.3 0 080 8.5 14 100 22.0 3 673.1 13 38.9 40.0 39.5 0 100 7.9 13 080 23.0 5 670.7 14 38.9 40.6 39.9 T 010 13.0 16 010 24.0 7 672.1 IC,IF 15 36.4 40.0 37.7 T 010 13.3 20 010 21.0 8 673.6 IC,IF 16 35.9 37.8 36.7 T 360 11.7 17 010 23.5 8 676.9 IC,IF,SG 17 36.1 38.3 37.0 T 010 11.9 16 010 15.0 7 677.7 IC,IF 18 33.1 37.8 34.3 T 010 12.8 17 010 18.0 9 675.0 IC,IF 19 33.3 36.7 36.3 T 020 8.8 17 010 10.5 4 672.5 IC,IF 20 36.1 38.9 37.7 0 050 9.2 12 060 24.0 3 674.1 21 37.2 38.9 38.1 0 360 12.9 17 010 22.5 7 678.6 22 35.9 38.3 36.8 T 350 10.3 17 350 14.0 7 681.8 IC,IF 23 36.1 37.2 36.6 T 020 13.4 17 010 24.0 2 683.9 IC 24 33.7 37.2 36.1 T 010 13.3 18 020 24.0 3 691.4 IC 25 31.4 37.8 34.0 T 360 12.5 18 360 20.5 6 690.8 IC,IF,SG 26 34.2 35.6 34.7 T 050 11.5 18 020 24.0 1 685.4 IC,IF 27 34.4 35.0 34.8 T 030 9.3 15 030 24.0 2 683.9 IC 28 32.2 35.0 34.4 0 020 2.0 12 020 24.0 3 686.0 29 32.2 35.6 34.2 T 060 6.5 9 070 24.0 1 687.9 IC 30 33.1 35.0 34.2 0 050 6.2 9 100 24.0 0 685.3 AVG 35.6 38.8 37.3 T 020 12.3 32 020 20.5 4 680.1 1st AVG MONTHLY -37.3 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 16 HIGHEST -31.4 ON 25th SUNSHINE 615.2/85.4% PARTLY CLOUDY 11 LOWEST -42.8 ON 1st,10th CLOUDY 03 HIGH PRESSURE 693.2 ON 25th LOW PRESSURE 670.3 ON 13th NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: 9.99 SNOWSTAKE DATA NOT AVAILABLE. 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 -32.2 -31.4 Min T Changed Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 36.1 35.6 Avg Wnd Spd 13.3 12.3 Avg Press Min T 38.5 38.8 Max Press 693.0 693.2 Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 37.3 37.3 Min Press Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 2 10 11 15 16 18 22 24 25 26 30 From: 36.1 40.0 37.8 38.9 36.1 33.9 36.7 36.7 32.8 34.4 33.3 To: 34.4 38.1 37.5 36.4 35.9 33.1 35.9 33.7 31.4 34.2 33.1 Min Temp Day 1 6 9 20 From: 39.4 38.3 41.7 37.2 To: 42.8 39.8 42.0 38.9 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 38.6 37.8 36.7 37.5 37.5 37.2 38.3 39.2 40.6 41.4 39.7 38.6 39.4 39.7 39.4 36.9 To: 40.3 37.5 36.5 38.4 36.9 37.8 38.1 40.0 40.9 40.4 38.3 39.3 39.5 39.9 37.7 36.7 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 From: 37.2 35.8 35.0 36.7 38.1 37.5 36.7 36.9 35.3 35.0 34.7 33.6 33.9 To: 37.0 34.3 36.3 37.7 38.1 36.8 36.6 36.1 34.0 34.7 34.8 34.4 34.2 Number of NCDC observations per day: 8