***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1976 MONTH MARCH .... 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 53.0 55.0 53.5 M 060 11.5 14 060 M 5 676.6 2 52.0 56.0 52.7 M 360 14.7 19 010 M 6 679.2 3 50.9 55.0 52.1 M 360 16.7 23 360 M 6 687.8 4 46.4 54.0 50.1 M 030 18.7 28 250 M 4 689.1 5 44.0 52.0 46.3 M 360 23.3 37 010 M 9 688.0 6 43.6 49.0 44.3 M 360 26.7 38 360 M 9 694.7 7 44.0 48.1 46.2 M 010 18.1 36 360 M 8 693.3 8 45.0 50.0 48.7 M 030 15.8 26 010 M 7 688.4 9 43.0 50.0 45.7 M 030 16.4 25 020 M 8 684.6 10 42.5 48.0 43.3 M 360 21.3 35 360 M 8 681.2 11 43.0 52.5 48.8 M 360 11.5 32 360 M 4 680.8 12 42.5 55.0 49.2 M 010 10.4 18 030 M 5 684.2 13 38.0 53.0 39.7 M 300 12.6 24 330 M 8 691.4 14 38.0 41.0 39.3 M 010 8.3 18 360 M 8 691.9 15 37.8 54.2 46.7 M 010 7.5 20 010 M 6 686.8 16 44.0 59.2 57.4 M 090 4.9 9 090 M 1 678.3 17 56.0 60.0 58.5 M 090 8.6 12 090 M 1 677.0 18 58.0 63.1 61.8 M 090 5.5 14 080 M 0 680.5 19 56.4 64.0 61.0 M 070 7.2 12 070 M 2 680.3 20 55.0 64.0 58.7 M 080 3.7 14 070 M 4 678.1 21 57.0 62.5 61.4 M 110 6.9 13 110 M 2 678.7 22 50.3 64.0 54.8 M 120 3.2 12 120 M 5 681.7 23 44.2 57.0 45.0 M 350 6.3 14 340 M 8 683.3 24 44.0 52.5 49.9 M 350 18.4 29 360 M 7 673.6 25 48.0 62.5 60.8 M 060 10.6 29 360 M 1 668.0 26 58.1 65.8 62.1 M 050 10.3 18 040 M 3 666.9 27 60.0 69.0 67.5 M 120 12.1 15 100 M 2 668.4 28 65.3 69.0 66.4 M 130 8.9 19 120 M 1 670.8 29 59.7 67.5 64.7 M 120 15.8 24 130 M 0 665.8 30 65.0 69.7 68.7 M 120 14.1 29 120 M 0 665.3 31 54.7 70.3 59.2 M 020 17.6 25 030 M 4 665.2 AVG 49.7 57.8 53.7 0 360 12.5 38 360 M 5 680.0 6th AVG MONTHLY -53.7 PCPN M NR DAYS CLEAR 10 HIGHEST -37.8 ON 15th SUNSHINE M PARTLY CLOUDY 11 LOWEST -70.3 ON 31th CLOUDY 10 HIGH PRESSURE 696.9 ON 6th LOW PRESSURE 662.7 ON 31st NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: 9.99 SNOWSTAKE DATA NOT AVAILABLE. Insufficient Data available for Sunshine Hours Computation. 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 50.8 49.7 Avg Wnd Spd 12.1 12.5 Avg Press Min T 57.2 57.8 Max Press 696.1 696.9 Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 54.0 53.7 Min Press 663.5 662.7 Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 3 4 6 10 12 19 22 23 26 28 29 31 From: 51.0 51.0 44.0 43.0 49.0 62.0 56.0 45.0 59.0 66.0 65.0 59.0 To: 50.9 46.4 43.6 42.5 42.5 56.4 50.3 44.2 58.1 65.3 59.7 54.7 Min Temp Day 7 11 15 16 18 21 24 25 26 29 30 From: 47.0 48.0 48.0 58.0 62.0 62.0 51.0 62.0 64.0 67.0 69.0 To: 48.1 52.5 54.2 59.2 63.1 62.5 52.5 62.5 65.8 67.5 69.7 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 54.0 54.0 53.0 52.5 48.0 46.5 45.5 47.5 46.5 45.5 45.5 52.0 45.5 39.5 42.9 51.0 To: 53.5 52.7 52.1 50.1 46.3 44.3 46.2 48.7 45.7 43.3 48.8 49.2 39.7 39.3 46.7 57.4 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 From: 58.0 60.0 63.0 59.5 59.5 60.0 51.0 47.5 55.0 61.5 64.5 67.5 66.0 67.0 64.6 To: 58.5 61.8 61.0 58.7 61.4 54.8 45.0 49.9 60.8 62.1 67.5 66.4 64.7 68.7 59.2 Number of NCDC observations per day: 4