***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1979 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 60.2 69.4 68.0 0 090 7.5 15 080 0.0 0 666.8 2 64.5 70.3 68.6 0 090 6.1 10 090 0.0 4 667.0 3 64.4 70.6 66.9 T 050 11.1 13 070 0.0 6 668.3 4 60.6 67.2 62.2 T 040 15.0 23 030 0.0 7 664.6 5 50.0 61.3 52.2 T 020 21.3 29 020 0.0 2 666.3 6 49.3 56.7 53.3 T 020 15.3 29 020 0.0 8 673.7 7 51.6 59.3 57.1 T 030 16.7 21 030 0.0 3 675.6 8 55.0 69.4 64.8 T 090 9.2 23 030 0.0 0 676.3 9 64.1 70.6 67.3 T 090 9.2 13 080 0.0 1 685.4 10 64.7 69.2 66.0 T 080 10.0 13 080 0.0 2 687.4 11 61.7 67.4 63.2 T 080 11.2 14 070 0.0 0 686.3 12 55.6 63.3 58.2 T 050 12.6 15 060 0.0 1 678.6 13 54.7 65.6 62.4 T 070 10.3 21 040 0.0 0 686.5 14 56.1 66.0 58.4 T 090 10.7 14 080 0.0 1 687.4 15 52.0 59.6 56.0 T 040 16.7 23 120 0.0 2 677.0 16 53.8 62.2 60.8 T 040 13.3 26 030 0.0 2 680.6 17 58.9 62.6 59.7 T 020 21.0 25 020 0.0 2 673.9 18 58.2 63.9 60.7 T 040 10.4 28 020 0.0 1 674.0 19 59.6 68.9 65.7 T 050 6.1 14 030 0.0 0 669.6 20 57.8 70.3 60.0 T 020 11.5 15 020 0.0 6 666.9 21 56.3 61.1 58.5 T 010 9.8 22 010 0.0 6 666.4 22 56.3 68.5 65.9 T 050 8.3 16 010 0.0 1 666.4 23 63.8 71.2 70.0 T 060 8.1 14 040 0.0 0 665.5 24 63.3 71.9 67.3 T 040 8.6 11 080 0.0 2 666.4 25 57.8 69.8 61.1 T 030 8.3 13 040 0.0 2 667.5 26 54.8 65.0 55.3 T 010 13.5 20 010 0.0 6 669.8 27 47.2 60.3 54.6 T 010 17.2 22 010 0.0 5 674.7 28 45.7 60.1 47.9 T 350 8.6 21 360 0.0 8 679.6 29 46.0 55.3 53.9 T 070 8.3 14 360 0.0 5 675.2 30 53.1 67.2 63.6 0 090 9.2 14 070 0.0 2 674.2 31 55.0 69.5 60.1 0 020 14.7 18 030 0.0 6 680.7 AVG 56.5 65.6 61.0 T 090 11.6 29 020 0.0 3 674.1 5th,6th AVG MONTHLY -61.0 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 19 HIGHEST -45.7 ON 28th SUNSHINE 0.0/ 0% PARTLY CLOUDY 09 LOWEST -71.9 ON 24th CLOUDY 03 HIGH PRESSURE 693.2 ON 14th LOW PRESSURE 653.9 ON 1st NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: +1.62 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 Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 57.7 56.5 Avg Wnd Spd 12.0 11.6 Avg Press 674.1 673.6 Min T 64.8 65.6 Max Press Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 61.2 61.0 Min Press Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 3 4 5 11 12 14 17 20 24 25 27 31 From: 64.9 60.9 52.6 63.8 56.4 59.2 60.2 61.1 69.5 61.3 54.7 59.6 To: 64.4 60.6 50.0 61.7 55.6 56.1 58.9 57.8 63.3 57.8 47.2 55.0 Min Temp Day 1 6 8 9 13 16 18 19 30 From: 68.9 52.6 64.1 70.4 61.2 60.8 60.9 66.1 62.9 To: 69.4 56.7 69.4 70.6 65.6 62.2 63.9 68.9 67.2 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 64.6 67.4 67.8 64.1 57.0 51.0 55.5 59.5 66.9 65.6 59.9 58.0 62.6 55.8 57.3 To: 68.0 68.6 66.9 62.2 52.2 53.3 57.1 64.8 66.0 63.2 58.2 62.4 58.4 56.0 60.8 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 From: 61.4 59.6 62.8 65.7 58.7 62.4 67.5 70.7 65.6 59.9 57.5 52.9 50.7 58.0 64.6 To: 59.7 60.7 65.7 60.0 58.5 65.9 70.0 67.3 61.1 55.3 54.6 47.9 53.9 63.6 60.1 Number of NCDC observations per day: 4