***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1976 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 50.3 61.0 55.0 M 050 10.6 15 050 M 2 677.9 2 49.0 58.1 55.0 M 010 14.9 22 360 M 1 676.2 3 52.0 64.0 62.3 M 060 8.6 20 010 M 0 678.7 4 61.0 65.0 63.1 M 070 10.3 14 070 M 0 674.5 5 62.0 66.4 65.2 M 070 10.3 14 070 M 0 672.9 6 55.3 69.0 59.2 M 040 7.5 13 060 M 2 677.0 7 41.4 64.0 50.1 M 320 12.1 15 010 M 5 677.5 8 38.9 53.0 41.8 M 170 12.1 18 360 M 6 671.7 9 40.0 60.3 57.0 M 080 14.4 23 080 M 2 663.7 10 59.0 68.6 64.3 M 080 12.7 22 070 M 0 662.1 11 63.0 72.0 69.3 M 040 5.4 14 070 M 1 669.8 12 51.4 72.0 62.9 M 060 12.7 21 020 M 5 679.2 13 43.1 68.0 47.1 M 010 21.3 33 030 M 8 677.4 14 43.0 49.0 44.3 M 010 22.8 33 010 M 8 674.5 15 43.0 56.4 52.1 M 030 14.4 31 010 M 6 676.0 16 52.0 58.6 57.4 M 030 16.7 24 010 M 5 674.6 17 57.0 60.0 58.7 M 060 10.9 24 020 M 3 675.7 18 58.0 67.5 64.9 M 090 10.6 14 090 M 1 672.9 19 54.7 69.0 60.5 M 030 19.0 24 050 M 4 671.1 20 53.0 64.0 58.2 M 030 9.5 33 020 M 2 682.3 21 56.4 63.0 58.1 M 080 4.9 18 040 M 0 681.9 22 53.0 71.4 65.7 M 090 9.2 15 150 M 0 669.3 23 61.4 74.0 68.9 M 090 7.8 12 090 M 2 670.1 24 39.0 74.4 59.6 M 360 4.0 12 010 M 6 678.6 25 55.3 61.0 57.5 M 100 6.7 10 360 M 3 675.2 26 55.0 70.8 65.7 M 110 11.5 15 100 M 0 665.3 27 63.0 71.0 67.4 M 040 12.9 16 080 M 1 665.1 28 62.0 69.0 64.7 M 050 11.2 23 030 M 1 668.0 29 52.0 69.0 63.3 M 080 12.0 27 040 M 1 667.8 30 61.0 69.0 65.0 M 040 16.1 18 060 M 0 663.6 31 39.8 70.0 44.6 M 020 18.4 36 030 M 1 662.2 AVG 52.4 65.4 59.0 0 030 12.0 36 030 M 2 672.7 31st AVG MONTHLY -59.0 PCPN M NR DAYS CLEAR 20 HIGHEST -38.9 ON 8th SUNSHINE M PARTLY CLOUDY 09 LOWEST -74.4 ON 24th CLOUDY 02 HIGH PRESSURE 686.4 ON 21st LOW PRESSURE 658.7 ON 31st NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: 9.99 SNOWSTAKE DATA NOT AVAILABLE. SUNSHINE 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 Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 54.5 52.4 Avg Wnd Spd 11.9 12.0 Avg Press Min T 64.5 65.4 Max Press 684.3 686.4 Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 59.5 59.0 Min Press Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 1 6 7 12 13 19 21 23 25 31 From: 55.0 58.0 53.0 66.0 49.0 64.0 59.0 65.0 57.0 46.0 To: 50.3 55.3 41.4 51.4 43.1 54.7 56.4 61.4 55.3 39.8 Min Temp Day 2 5 9 10 15 16 18 22 26 From: 58.0 66.0 59.0 63.0 52.0 57.0 64.0 65.0 64.0 To: 58.1 66.4 60.3 68.6 56.4 58.6 67.5 71.4 70.8 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 58.0 53.5 58.0 63.0 64.0 63.5 58.5 46.0 49.5 61.0 67.5 69.0 58.5 46.0 47.5 54.5 To: 55.0 55.0 62.3 63.1 65.2 59.2 50.1 41.8 57.0 64.3 69.3 62.9 47.1 44.3 52.1 57.4 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 From: 58.5 61.0 66.5 58.5 61.0 59.0 69.5 56.7 59.0 59.5 67.0 65.5 60.5 65.0 58.0 To: 58.7 64.9 60.5 58.2 58.1 65.7 68.9 59.6 57.5 65.7 67.4 64.7 63.3 65.0 44.6 Number of NCDC observations per day: 4