***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1976 MONTH AUGUST .... 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 58.0 62.0 59.3 M 030 18.5 29 030 M 0 675.4 2 57.0 65.8 63.0 M 090 11.8 30 030 M 0 674.7 3 63.0 69.7 68.7 M 070 10.1 17 070 M 2 668.8 4 57.5 71.0 61.5 M 040 15.2 22 040 M 3 670.0 5 58.0 67.5 64.0 M 070 12.4 24 040 M 1 665.7 6 62.0 72.0 69.5 M 070 9.2 17 060 M 1 666.8 7 68.0 74.7 73.6 M 100 6.7 19 060 M 0 673.0 8 72.5 76.0 73.6 M 110 7.2 11 100 M 8 671.4 9 70.8 74.0 71.8 M 090 10.1 13 100 M 8 669.6 10 54.7 72.0 60.1 M 050 16.1 20 060 M 1 665.3 11 45.9 62.0 48.9 M 010 22.9 36 030 M 7 668.4 12 45.7 58.1 54.0 M 030 17.9 39 020 M 3 669.2 13 53.0 60.0 56.7 M 040 19.0 31 030 M 1 673.8 14 52.0 59.2 56.7 M 030 17.3 37 030 M 1 676.4 15 55.0 62.0 60.4 M 060 13.5 28 030 M 0 672.4 16 58.1 64.0 60.0 M 040 15.5 20 060 M 8 665.4 17 57.0 67.0 65.2 M 060 10.6 22 030 M 1 673.0 18 63.0 69.0 68.3 M 070 10.0 15 070 M 1 681.8 19 67.0 71.0 69.9 M 090 9.5 15 080 M 2 682.0 20 65.3 73.0 68.6 M 100 12.7 17 090 M 0 677.6 21 65.0 71.0 68.9 M 100 9.2 15 110 M 0 667.7 22 69.0 73.1 71.4 M 100 6.7 15 080 M 0 666.7 23 70.3 74.0 72.4 M 100 5.1 11 120 M 2 668.1 24 70.0 74.0 71.6 M 080 8.9 11 110 M 2 668.2 25 59.2 71.4 66.1 M 060 13.3 20 060 M 2 664.0 26 58.1 68.0 59.6 M 030 19.0 30 020 M 2 667.7 27 58.0 68.6 65.7 M 070 12.4 26 030 M 2 672.1 28 63.0 71.0 68.8 M 070 11.0 17 070 M 2 670.3 29 62.5 71.0 66.0 M 040 13.5 18 060 M 4 667.5 30 63.0 70.0 64.7 M 030 14.7 19 040 M 3 671.5 31 63.6 72.5 69.0 M 020 7.2 20 010 M 2 677.0 AVG 60.8 68.9 65.1 M 070 12.5 39 020 M 2 671.0 12th AVG MONTHLY -65.1 PCPN M NR DAYS CLEAR 07 HIGHEST -45.7 ON 12th SUNSHINE M PARTLY CLOUDY 12 LOWEST -76.0 ON 8th CLOUDY 12 HIGH PRESSURE 682.7 ON 19th LOW PRESSURE 663.9 ON 10th 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 62.0 60.8 Avg Wnd Spd 12.6 12.5 Avg Press 665.6 671.0 Min T 68.1 68.9 Max Press 682.1 682.7 Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T Min Press Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 4 8 9 10 11 16 20 23 25 26 29 31 From: 63.0 73.0 72.0 62.0 47.0 59.0 69.0 71.0 68.0 60.0 67.0 64.0 To: 57.5 72.5 70.8 54.7 45.9 58.1 65.3 70.3 59.2 58.1 62.5 63.6 Min Temp Day 2 3 5 7 12 14 15 22 25 27 31 From: 63.0 69.0 64.0 74.0 53.0 59.0 61.0 72.0 71.0 66.0 68.0 To: 65.8 69.7 67.5 74.7 58.1 59.2 62.0 73.1 71.4 68.6 72.5 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 60.0 60.0 66.0 67.0 61.0 67.0 71.0 74.5 73.0 67.0 54.5 49.4 56.5 55.5 58.0 61.5 To: 59.3 63.0 68.7 61.5 64.0 69.5 73.6 73.6 71.8 60.1 48.9 54.0 56.7 56.7 60.4 60.0 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 From: 62.0 66.0 69.0 71.0 68.0 70.5 72.5 72.0 69.5 64.0 62.0 67.0 69.0 66.5 66.0 To: 65.2 68.3 69.9 68.6 68.9 71.4 72.4 71.6 66.1 59.6 65.7 68.8 66.0 64.7 69.0 Number of NCDC observations per day: 4