***Corrected Winter 2010***

LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION

YEAR	1974
MONTH	MAY		.... 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	48.3	58.1	55.6	0	050	 7.5	16	050	M	0	681.4	
2	54.4	63.9	61.5	0	120	14.7	16	120	M	0	677.9	
3	59.4	68.6	66.7	0	130	15.5	22	120	M	0	670.3	SB,IF
4	65.8	72.8	70.0	0	030	 9.8	18	130	M	2	670.6	
5	56.4	71.7	58.6	T	040	12.4	15	040	M	4	672.1	SG,IF
6	56.1	67.5	66.0	T	110	12.1	16	110	M	1	665.9	SG,IF
7	64.4	71.1	69.8	0	130	14.4	21	130	M	0	665.3	
8	67.0	71.1	68.7	0	130	17.3	25	040	M	0	666.6	BS
9	59.2	71.7	66.4	0	120	12.4	23	130	M	0	664.3	BS
10	58.3	68.9	62.5	T	050	13.0	17	050	M	1	665.7	IC
11	59.4	66.7	63.6	T	080	13.5	16	050	M	0	671.9	IC
12	57.8	66.7	59.6	0	030	13.8	18	030	M	0	677.6	BS
13	57.0	64.7	61.1	0	120	13.5	18	080	M	0	675.0	BS
14	49.2	65.0	54.9	0	030	15.5	17	050	M	1	683.9	BS
15	45.3	57.8	49.1	0	010	16.9	21	030	M	6	689.8	BS
16	42.5	53.3	46.3	T	360	12.6	21	020	M	4	683.9	SG,BS,IF
17	42.8	64.7	61.5	0	110	13.3	16	070	M	0	685.3	BS
18	53.6	65.6	57.1	0	120	15.8	20	130	M	0	693.9	BS
19	52.0	58.9	53.8	0	120	17.2	21	120	M	0	695.4	BS
20	50.6	59.2	55.8	0	110	20.1	24	120	M	0	682.9	BS
21	53.9	65.3	63.9	0	110	14.7	23	120	M	0	678.8	BS
22	62.2	66.1	64.0	0	080	14.7	20	070	M	1	683.2	BS
23	53.6	65.6	60.7	0	040	15.3	18	080	M	0	683.7	BS
24	48.1	63.3	50.3	0	020	19.0	21	020	M	0	683.8	BS
25	47.8	58.1	55.6	0	110	17.8	23	020	M	1	683.6	BS
26	55.0	65.6	61.8	0	020	15.3	21	080	M	0	680.4	BS
27	42.5	65.6	50.1	0	020	16.9	22	020	M	1	695.8	BS
28	34.8	53.3	37.9	0	030	21.3	24	030	M	4	701.6	BS
29	34.4	40.0	37.8	T	020	23.6	26	020	M	2	700.1	SG,BS,IF
30	37.2	46.4	41.0	T	020	22.4	32	020	M	5	696.1	SG,BS,IF
31	38.3	56.4	54.9	T	080	12.6	27	010	M	0	698.3	SG,IF

AVG	51.8	63.0	57.6	T	020	15.3	32	020	M	1	681.4
							30th
AVG MONTHLY	-57.6		PCPN	TRACE			NR DAYS CLEAR	26
HIGHEST	-34.4	ON 29th		SUNSHINE	M		PARTLY CLOUDY 	05
LOWEST	-72.8	ON 4th						CLOUDY		00
				HIGH PRESSURE	701.7	ON 28th
				LOW PRESSURE	661.0	ON 7th
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
Min T

Changed Monthly Averages:  (All temps are Minus C)
	From	To			From	To				From	To
Max T	53.4	51.8	Avg Wnd Spd	15.2	15.3	Avg Press		681.1	681.4
Min T	62.2	63.0	Max Press			Fastest Wnd MPH
Avg T	57.8	57.6	Min Press

Changes to Daily Data:
Max Temp	Day	4	5	8	9	13	14	15	16	18	19	23	24	27	28
		From:	66.7	56.7	67.2	66.7	57.2	56.7	47.8	42.8	58.3	52.8	63.3	48.9	52.2	38.9
		To:	65.8	56.4	67.0	59.2	57.0	49.2	45.3	42.5	53.6	52.0	53.6	48.1	42.5	34.8

Min Temp	Day	1	3	6	13	17	20	21	25	30	31
		From:	54.4	66.7	66.7	63.9	61.1	55.0	65.0	55.6	40.0	56.1
		To:	58.1	68.6	67.5	64.7	64.7	59.2	65.3	58.1	46.4	56.4

Avg Temp	Day	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
		From:	51.4	59.2	63.1	69.7	64.2	61.4	67.8	69.2	69.2	63.6	63.1	62.2	60.6	60.8	52.8	48.1
		To:	55.6	61.5	66.7	70.0	58.6	66.0	69.8	68.7	66.4	62.5	63.6	59.6	61.1	54.9	49.1	46.3
		Day	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
		From:	51.9	61.9	55.8	52.8	59.4	64.2	64.4	56.1	51.7	60.3	58.9	46.1	37.2	38.6	47.2
		To:	61.5	57.1	53.8	55.8	63.9	64.0	60.7	50.3	55.6	61.8	50.1	37.9	37.8	41.0	54.9

Number of NCDC observations per day: 4