***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1976 MONTH OCTOBER .... 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 61.0 64.7 63.0 M 050 12.9 27 030 M 6 669.4 2 61.0 66.3 62.6 M 040 16.4 22 040 M 5 664.1 3 60.3 64.0 61.3 M 030 14.4 30 020 M 3 664.2 4 61.0 65.0 64.0 M 050 9.2 27 020 M 2 666.5 5 59.7 66.0 61.2 M 050 12.1 18 050 M 1 666.3 6 45.3 64.0 48.9 M 020 24.8 39 040 M 6 660.6 7 39.8 52.5 43.8 M 020 22.7 44 020 M 8 660.7 8 43.0 56.0 54.6 M 040 13.8 31 020 M 7 669.3 9 50.9 56.0 52.7 M 020 16.7 25 030 M 6 664.9 10 51.0 63.1 61.1 M 060 8.9 23 010 M 1 661.6 11 50.9 64.0 56.4 M 020 15.0 21 050 M 2 658.4 12 48.1 59.0 49.0 M 020 19.6 26 020 M 4 659.8 13 48.0 56.4 53.8 M 010 18.1 25 020 M 6 664.1 14 49.2 57.0 52.2 M 010 24.7 31 020 M 8 666.0 15 46.0 54.0 50.0 M 010 21.5 37 010 M 7 667.4 16 49.0 55.0 54.0 M 010 17.5 29 360 M 5 672.0 17 49.7 55.0 51.9 M 040 18.1 25 010 M 5 670.0 18 38.1 54.0 45.4 M 010 26.4 35 020 M 7 668.0 19 35.9 50.0 37.9 M 010 23.6 45 010 M 8 673.7 20 36.2 41.0 38.5 M 020 23.3 34 020 M 8 675.6 21 36.2 42.0 41.4 M 030 25.6 38 020 M 2 671.8 22 41.0 44.2 43.5 M 030 17.0 40 030 M 0 674.2 23 43.0 51.4 48.3 M 060 10.9 23 040 M 3 672.4 24 47.5 53.0 49.9 M 040 16.2 24 030 M 4 674.4 25 42.5 52.0 44.7 M 010 16.7 28 020 M 4 677.3 26 43.0 46.0 43.6 M 020 15.8 28 020 M 7 675.1 27 43.0 49.2 47.0 M 030 9.7 27 020 M 5 673.9 28 46.0 50.0 49.4 M 080 9.2 14 040 M 2 677.3 29 47.5 50.0 48.6 M 050 11.5 13 060 M 4 673.8 30 42.5 50.0 43.8 M 020 20.7 28 030 M 7 674.9 31 42.0 44.0 42.1 M 030 19.1 29 010 M 4 675.5 AVG 47.0 54.7 50.5 0 020 17.2 45 010 M 5 669.1 19th AVG MONTHLY -50.5 PCPN M NR DAYS CLEAR 07 HIGHEST -35.9 ON 19th SUNSHINE M PARTLY CLOUDY 15 LOWEST -66.3 ON 2nd CLOUDY 09 HIGH PRESSURE 678.0 ON 25th LOW PRESSURE 656.6 ON 11th 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 Extremes: From To Max T -36.2 -35.9 Min T Changed Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 48.4 47.0 Avg Wnd Spd 17.1 17.2 Avg Press Min T 54.2 54.7 Max Press 677.5 678.0 Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 51.3 50.5 Min Press 658.9 656.6 Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 3 5 6 7 9 11 12 14 17 18 19 24 25 29 30 From: 61.0 62.0 49.0 40.0 51.0 59.0 49.0 53.0 53.0 49.0 36.2 49.0 46.0 49.0 44.0 To: 60.3 59.7 45.3 39.8 50.9 50.9 48.1 49.2 49.7 38.1 35.9 47.5 42.5 47.5 42.5 Min Temp Day 1 7 10 13 22 23 27 From: 64.0 50.0 61.0 54.0 44.0 49.0 46.0 To: 64.7 52.5 63.1 56.4 44.2 51.4 49.2 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 From: 62.5 63.7 62.5 63.0 64.0 56.5 45.0 49.5 53.5 56.0 61.5 54.0 51.0 55.0 52.0 To: 63.0 62.6 61.3 64.0 61.2 48.9 43.8 54.6 52.7 61.1 56.4 49.0 53.8 52.2 54.0 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 From: 54.0 51.5 43.1 38.6 39.1 42.5 46.0 51.0 49.0 44.5 44.5 48.0 49.5 47.0 43.0 To: 51.9 45.4 37.9 38.5 41.4 43.5 48.3 49.9 44.7 43.6 47.0 49.4 48.6 43.8 42.1 Number of NCDC observations per day: 4