***Corrected Winter 2011*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1978 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 44.2 47.8 46.9 T 340 6.3 13 100 24.0 5 683.6 IF 2 42.8 49.3 46.3 T 010 12.5 17 010 22.0 6 689.2 3 41.9 48.3 44.9 T 100 6.9 20 010 5.1 3 691.0 IF,BS 4 38.9 47.6 44.1 0 360 10.1 15 040 24.0 6 689.1 IF 5 33.9 45.3 35.8 0 340 13.4 17 010 0.0 8 688.5 IF,BS 6 33.8 43.9 39.4 T 330 5.9 20 330 2.2 3 684.8 IF,BS 7 32.2 45.0 35.5 T 340 8.2 10 010 12.9 8 686.4 IF 8 32.2 42.2 38.0 T 050 7.8 13 350 5.5 2 685.0 IF 9 38.0 42.9 40.5 T 050 7.5 10 070 22.0 6 683.0 IF 10 38.3 42.2 41.7 T 060 11.2 17 050 21.8 4 682.4 IF 11 40.7 46.1 44.4 T 070 7.8 20 030 24.0 0 683.0 BS 12 35.0 46.4 40.4 T 360 15.4 22 360 22.2 7 684.2 IF,BS 13 33.9 41.1 35.6 T 010 15.9 29 340 0.3 7 688.1 IF,BS 14 35.0 38.9 37.9 T 040 11.5 20 350 20.3 7 689.1 BS 15 37.0 40.0 39.3 T 060 8.3 16 020 20.1 4 688.2 16 37.8 39.7 38.3 0 070 7.6 13 070 24.0 0 684.0 17 36.9 39.0 38.3 0 070 7.6 10 080 24.0 1 682.5 18 37.9 40.0 39.7 0 090 5.6 10 070 24.0 1 681.3 19 39.5 41.1 40.7 T 040 8.2 9 040 24.0 5 680.1 20 39.8 41.1 40.1 T 050 7.9 10 020 24.0 4 678.9 21 35.0 40.8 37.0 T 030 10.7 15 040 20.0 6 677.0 22 33.9 37.5 34.9 T 030 11.9 16 030 21.2 7 676.2 BS 23 34.3 37.2 36.4 T 050 10.3 16 030 23.7 0 675.5 IF 24 34.7 37.0 35.1 T 050 13.7 19 040 24.0 1 677.7 IF 25 33.9 35.0 34.9 T 050 8.6 18 040 24.0 1 681.5 BS 26 32.2 35.3 34.1 T 040 9.7 13 040 24.0 3 684.3 27 31.6 34.8 33.6 T 020 12.6 17 040 22.2 2 685.0 IF 28 33.1 35.0 34.2 T 040 6.1 17 030 24.0 3 684.1 29 32.8 35.3 34.3 0 020 8.6 13 010 24.0 2 684.5 30 31.1 35.3 33.7 0 090 8.5 13 020 24.0 1 680.8 AVG 36.1 41.0 38.5 T 050 9.5 29 340 19.3 4 683.6 13th AVG MONTHLY -38.5 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 11 HIGHEST -31.1 ON 30th SUNSHINE 577.5/ 80% PARTLY CLOUDY 13 LOWEST -49.3 ON 2nd CLOUDY 06 HIGH PRESSURE 691.8 ON 3rd LOW PRESSURE 673.9 ON 23rd NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: +0.94 inches 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 -31.6 -31.1 Min T Changed Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 36.9 36.1 Avg Wnd Spd Avg Press 683.8 683.6 Min T 40.6 41.0 Max Press Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 38.8 38.5 Min Press 675.8 673.9 Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 2 4 5 7 12 13 16 21 22 25 26 30 From: 44.9 44.7 35.2 34.8 41.3 34.1 37.9 36.7 34.9 34.3 34.0 33.8 To: 42.8 38.9 33.9 32.2 35.0 33.9 37.8 35.0 33.9 33.9 32.2 31.1 Min Temp Day 1 6 8 10 11 14 15 18 19 20 23 28 From: 47.5 39.0 38.0 41.9 45.1 38.5 39.7 39.6 40.8 40.9 36.5 34.7 To: 47.8 43.9 42.2 42.2 46.1 38.9 40.0 40.0 41.1 41.1 37.2 35.0 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 45.9 47.1 45.1 46.2 40.3 36.4 39.9 35.1 40.5 40.1 42.9 43.9 37.6 36.8 38.4 38.8 To: 46.9 46.3 44.9 44.1 35.8 39.4 35.5 38.0 40.5 41.7 44.4 40.4 35.6 37.9 39.3 38.3 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 From: 38.0 38.8 40.2 40.4 38.8 36.2 35.4 35.9 34.7 34.7 33.2 33.9 34.0 34.5 To: 38.3 39.7 40.7 40.1 37.0 34.9 36.4 35.1 34.9 34.1 33.6 34.2 34.3 33.7 Number of NCDC observations per day: 8