***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1976 MONTH NOVEMBER .... 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 41.7 45.6 44.5 T 040 15.7 31 030 M 4 676.1 2 42.8 46.1 43.6 T 020 15.5 23 030 M 6 678.7 3 41.7 45.3 44.1 T 030 9.6 22 020 M 3 681.6 4 35.3 45.6 39.3 T 320 13.3 18 360 M 6 683.6 5 35.6 43.3 41.3 T 150 7.2 23 310 M 3 685.8 6 37.0 43.9 41.6 T 150 8.2 13 160 M 5 682.7 7 36.7 47.0 42.2 T 130 11.7 14 150 M 2 674.0 8 42.0 47.2 43.8 T 030 19.5 32 060 M 4 664.7 9 40.0 43.9 40.8 0 020 19.7 41 360 M 6 664.2 10 39.8 42.8 41.5 T 010 19.0 25 020 M 6 675.0 11 33.9 42.2 36.7 0 360 24.3 32 360 M 8 678.4 12 33.9 37.8 35.4 0 350 24.3 33 350 M 8 679.0 13 35.0 36.7 36.4 0 360 22.0 32 350 M 5 681.7 14 28.7 37.2 31.6 T 310 18.9 29 350 M 8 690.0 15 25.0 31.1 27.2 T 270 7.9 30 320 M 8 695.8 16 24.4 31.1 28.7 T 100 7.2 14 120 M 5 695.7 17 27.2 34.2 32.6 T 020 5.5 13 110 M 7 694.6 18 31.7 37.8 36.9 T 070 6.3 13 020 M 4 696.0 19 37.0 38.9 38.2 T 070 7.4 10 060 M 3 695.6 20 36.7 39.4 37.4 T 090 8.4 13 080 M 0 693.5 21 36.1 37.8 36.8 0 110 9.8 15 100 M 2 694.0 22 34.4 38.6 36.2 T 060 8.2 14 090 M 5 693.0 23 33.7 38.3 35.0 T 010 14.2 24 020 M 5 692.3 24 29.2 35.6 31.6 T 360 12.2 22 020 M 8 696.0 25 29.4 35.9 34.1 T 060 6.9 18 350 M 3 693.8 26 34.8 36.1 35.3 0 060 5.5 10 070 M 3 694.4 27 35.3 36.7 35.9 T 070 3.9 8 070 M 2 695.1 28 34.4 36.7 35.4 0 030 2.4 7 070 M 2 702.5 29 31.4 36.1 32.9 0 050 8.3 11 050 M 1 707.3 30 27.0 33.3 29.5 T 040 13.1 18 040 M 1 705.5 AVG 34.4 39.4 36.9 T 360 11.9 41 360 M 4 688.0 9th AVG MONTHLY -36.9 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 12 HIGHEST -24.4 ON 16th SUNSHINE M PARTLY CLOUDY 12 LOWEST -47.2 ON 8th CLOUDY 06 HIGH PRESSURE 708.0 ON 30th LOW PRESSURE 661.7 ON 8th 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 35.1 34.4 Avg Wnd Spd 12.1 11.9 Avg Press 687.2 688.0 Min T 39.1 39.4 Max Press Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 37.1 36.9 Min Press 661.9 661.7 Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 4 6 8 10 11 14 19 23 24 26 27 29 30 From: 38.3 40.6 42.2 40.6 37.8 31.7 37.2 34.4 31.7 35.0 35.6 32.8 29.4 To: 35.3 37.0 42.0 39.8 33.9 28.7 37.0 33.7 29.2 34.8 35.3 31.4 27.0 Min Temp Day 3 7 16 17 18 22 25 From: 44.4 43.9 30.0 32.8 37.2 37.8 35.0 To: 45.3 47.0 31.1 34.2 37.8 38.6 35.9 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 43.6 44.4 43.1 41.9 39.4 42.2 40.3 44.7 41.9 41.7 40.0 35.8 35.8 34.4 28.1 27.2 To: 44.5 43.6 44.1 39.3 41.3 41.6 42.2 43.8 40.8 41.5 36.7 35.4 36.4 31.6 27.2 28.7 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 From: 30.0 34.4 38.1 38.1 36.9 36.1 36.4 33.6 32.2 35.6 36.1 35.6 34.4 31.4 To: 32.6 36.9 38.2 37.4 36.8 36.2 35.0 31.6 34.1 35.3 35.9 35.4 32.9 29.5 Number of NCDC observations per day: 4