***Corrected Winter 2010***

LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION

YEAR	1981
MONTH	JANUARY		.... 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	24.0	27.7	26.1	T	110	 3.6	 9	320	24.0	5	688.2
2	24.4	28.0	26.4	T	100	 3.6	 8	090	24.0	2	688.2
3	23.8	26.0	24.5	T	060	 5.0	 8 	090	24.0	2	690.7
4	23.0	25.1	23.5	0	060	 6.8	10	060	24.0	0	692.8
5	22.7	24.5	23.0	0	060	 8.5	12	060	24.0	0	691.6
6	21.1	23.1	22.3	0	010	 6.5	17	030	20.7	5	690.8
7	21.7	24.0	22.7	T	010	 7.1	15	360	 1.3	8	689.6
8	20.0	26.0	21.6	T	340	16.4	23	360	 7.5	7	688.5
9	19.4	22.5	20.0	T	360	18.3	23	360	13.8	7	689.8
10	19.4	21.0	20.2	T	360	16.2	27	360	14.3	6	691.7
11	19.3	22.0	21.3	T	360	14.0	23	360	19.7	5	693.7
12	20.9	23.0	22.0	T	010	16.8	23	010	22.1	4	692.3
13	21.9	23.0	22.6	T	010	16.4	23	360	24.0	4	692.3
14	21.0	24.1	23.0	T	360	12.2	25	360	24.0	5	692.2
15	21.0	24.1	22.1	T	360	 9.0	16	360	15.0	7	694.0
16	20.7	26.1	24.1	T	360	 9.2	17	360	15.6	5	688.5
17	19.0	24.9	21.9	T	360	18.9	28	360	23.4	6	679.7
18	17.8	23.1	19.7	T	340	11.2	25	350	10.1	7	685.7
19	18.8	22.9	21.5	T	290	 4.2	17	330	 8.5	8	689.5
20	20.0	26.5	24.2	T	320	 5.7	17	330	 1.3	8	688.2
21	20.9	25.6	23.0	T	280	 5.2	23	280	14.1	6	692.7
22	20.4	26.0	23.6	T	090	 4.9	11	180	11.4	3	694.9
23	21.0	26.2	25.7	T	090	11.2	18	090	24.0	0	686.9
24	25.3	29.0	27.4	0	090	13.1	23	090	24.0	0	676.8
25	26.1	31.0	29.0	0	060	 7.9	17	070	24.0	2	672.6
26	27.0	33.0	32.1	T	100	 5.1	11	090	24.0	0	674.5
27	31.2	35.0	33.8	0	060	 5.5	 9	360	24.0	0	672.8
28	27.0	34.5	31.9	T	010	 8.5	13	360	22.4	4	680.1
29	27.0	32.5	28.2	T	340	12.1	18	270	11.7	6	681.3
30	25.4	36.0	31.9	T	270	 5.0	16	170	10.7	7	689.8
31	31.0	35.2	33.5	T	080	 2.0	 8	360	24.0	2	693.9

AVG	22.7	26.8	24.9	T	360	 9.3	28	360	17.9	4	687.6
							17th
AVG MONTHLY	-24.9		PCPN	TRACE			NR DAYS CLEAR	11
HIGHEST	-17.8	ON 18th		SUNSHINE	555.6/74.7%	PARTLY CLOUDY 	13
LOWEST	-36.0	ON 30th						CLOUDY		07
				HIGH PRESSURE	696.3	ON 22th
				LOW PRESSURE	672.1	ON 25th

NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD:	0.00

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
Min T	-35.2	-36.0

Changed Monthly Averages:  (All temps are Minus C)
	From	To			From	To			From	To
Max T	23.2	22.7	Avg Wnd Spd	9.6	9.3	Avg Press	687.3	687.6
Min T	26.4	26.8	Max Press			Fastest Wnd MPH
Avg T	24.8	24.9	Min Press

Changes to Daily Data:
Max Temp	Day	2	8	9	14	15	17	28	29	31
		From:	26.1	21.3	19.5	21.8	21.1	22.4	30.1	27.3	31.7
		To:	24.4	20.0	19.4	21.0	21.0	19.0	27.0	27.0	31.0

Min Temp	Day	7	11	12	24	25	26	27	30
		From:	23.1	21.6	22.2	26.3	29.2	31.7	34.5	31.3
		To:	24.0	22.0	23.0	29.0	31.0	33.0	35.0	36.0

Avg Temp	Day	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	15	16	17
		From:	25.9	27.1	24.9	24.1	23.6	22.1	22.4	23.6	21.0	20.2	20.5	21.6	22.5	22.6	23.4	23.6
		To:	26.1	26.4	24.5	23.5	23.0	22.3	22.7	21.6	20.0	20.2	21.3	22.0	22.6	22.1	24.1	21.9
		Day	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
		From:	20.9	23.3	23.3	23.2	23.6	25.8	27.7	29.4	32.9	32.3	29.9	28.4
		To:	21.5	24.2	23.0	23.6	25.7	27.4	29.0	32.1	33.8	31.9	28.2	31.9

Number of NCDC observations per day: 8