***Corrected Winter 2011*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1975 MONTH FEBRUARY .... 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 36.1 40.0 38.2 0 140 10.0 13 110 23.5 1 680.8 2 35.6 38.3 37.0 0 110 9.8 13 140 22.3 0 686.9 IF 3 36.7 38.3 37.0 0 100 9.5 12 140 24.0 0 689.8 4 31.1 37.8 35.0 0 100 10.6 15 110 24.0 2 682.4 5 27.8 36.7 30.6 0 330 7.2 15 090 13.5 8 686.2 IF 6 30.0 37.2 35.1 0 030 4.0 9 340 1.2 8 693.7 IF 7 25.9 37.8 30.7 T 080 9.5 14 090 3.8 6 694.1 SG,IF 8 26.1 33.3 30.3 T 090 11.8 20 120 16.0 4 691.2 SG,IF 9 27.8 38.6 37.2 T 110 6.1 13 360 7.7 3 693.3 IC,IF 10 36.7 40.0 39.1 0 100 8.9 12 110 23.5 2 686.8 11 36.4 40.6 38.2 0 020 6.7 12 090 18.8 6 683.4 12 31.7 40.0 34.7 T 340 13.5 17 360 7.8 8 688.8 IC,IF 13 30.0 36.1 32.5 0 350 13.3 20 340 0.0 8 689.7 IC 14 32.2 35.3 34.4 0 010 14.9 21 360 0.8 8 686.9 SG,IF 15 33.1 37.8 35.6 0 010 16.1 21 360 0.3 8 689.1 IF 16 33.3 37.8 35.7 T 010 15.3 20 360 1.7 8 691.8 SG,IF 17 32.5 37.8 34.9 0 010 13.8 16 360 6.3 6 692.8 IF 18 32.0 39.8 36.2 0 350 7.7 16 360 1.7 7 693.3 IF 19 36.1 42.2 40.2 0 110 7.8 10 360 23.7 2 694.3 20 30.9 41.7 36.1 0 090 9.5 14 360 13.3 4 692.7 IF 21 31.1 45.9 44.1 0 100 9.5 14 110 22.5 0 688.1 22 42.8 48.9 48.0 0 080 9.5 14 090 24.0 0 684.1 23 47.8 49.7 49.2 0 080 10.8 13 090 24.0 0 681.7 24 48.9 51.4 50.6 0 090 8.9 13 080 24.0 0 679.8 25 50.6 52.5 52.1 0 090 9.5 12 090 24.0 5 680.1 26 49.2 54.4 51.6 0 030 10.3 13 090 19.3 6 684.6 27 46.1 52.2 50.0 0 030 11.0 16 020 16.0 3 684.7 IF 28 50.0 55.6 54.4 0 110 6.9 15 020 23.3 0 685.0 AVG 36.0 42.1 39.6 T 010 10.1 21 360 14.7 4 687.7 14th,15th AVG MONTHLY -39.6 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 11 HIGHEST -25.9 ON 7th SUNSHINE 411.0/ 61% PARTLY CLOUDY 09 LOWEST -55.6 ON 28th CLOUDY 08 HIGH PRESSURE 695.4 ON 7th LOW PRESSURE 676.3 ON 1st NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: M 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 -26.1 -25.9 Min T Changed Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 36.5 36.0 Avg Wnd Spd 9.9 10.1 Avg Press 687.5 687.7 Min T 41.7 42.1 Max Press Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 39.1 39.6 Min Press Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 7 11 12 15 17 18 20 26 From: 28.9 37.8 36.1 33.9 34.4 32.2 31.1 51.7 To: 25.9 36.4 31.7 33.1 32.5 32.0 30.9 49.2 Min Temp Day 9 14 18 21 22 23 24 25 From: 37.8 35.0 36.1 43.3 47.8 49.4 51.1 52.2 To: 38.6 35.3 39.8 45.9 48.9 49.7 51.4 52.5 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 38.1 36.9 37.5 34.4 32.2 33.6 33.3 29.7 32.8 38.3 39.2 38.1 33.1 33.6 35.8 35.6 To: 38.2 37.0 37.0 35.0 30.6 35.1 30.7 30.3 37.2 39.1 38.2 34.7 32.5 34.4 35.6 35.7 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 From: 36.1 34.2 39.2 36.4 37.2 45.3 48.6 50.0 51.4 53.1 49.2 52.8 To: 34.9 36.2 40.2 36.1 44.1 48.0 49.2 50.6 52.1 51.6 50.0 54.4 Number of NCDC observations per day: 4