***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1982 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 29.8 35.0 32.1 T 330 24.4 48 320 0.0 8 687.2 2 30.5 36.8 35.0 T 040 16.4 32 330 10.3 7 686.8 3 31.0 37.2 34.3 T 050 28.2 38 060 22.4 6 680.0 4 34.1 39.4 37.3 T 360 22.0 53 020 15.0 5 674.1 5 34.9 40.2 38.5 T 350 22.3 36 360 19.1 8 679.8 6 35.0 38.7 35.6 T 010 21.8 36 350 8.6 8 683.4 7 34.6 38.3 36.9 T 360 18.4 31 010 14.7 6 685.6 8 34.5 39.4 36.7 T 350 21.9 31 360 13.2 6 688.9 9 31.7 39.5 33.9 T 350 24.0 33 340 13.3 7 691.7 10 29.3 34.3 31.3 T 360 22.9 36 340 13.2 6 694.3 11 28.9 33.2 29.8 T 360 19.4 32 360 18.4 8 697.4 12 27.2 30.3 28.5 T 360 24.3 36 360 19.9 2 697.9 13 26.7 28.9 27.4 0 010 24.4 42 360 24.0 5 698.2 14 25.8 28.3 28.0 0 020 24.8 35 020 24.0 1 693.4 15 28.0 31.7 30.6 0 020 21.8 37 020 24.0 1 684.7 16 30.0 33.6 32.4 T 040 16.4 30 030 24.0 1 680.2 17 31.5 35.6 34.7 T 020 9.9 21 030 24.0 4 680.3 18 33.3 36.0 34.3 T 030 12.5 21 020 22.9 7 681.5 19 31.3 34.8 32.6 T 060 7.8 21 010 23.6 2 683.3 20 31.1 35.6 33.3 0 010 10.2 14 020 23.8 5 686.2 21 30.6 35.6 31.9 T 030 9.3 20 360 15.0 6 690.1 22 30.3 33.2 31.9 0 100 9.3 15 100 24.0 5 687.8 23 27.8 33.9 31.5 0 080 8.5 15 100 24.0 2 683.6 24 25.3 34.3 28.0 T 070 4.8 12 090 24.0 2 687.1 25 26.4 32.8 30.8 0 100 7.9 10 080 24.0 1 692.2 26 30.6 34.1 32.7 0 100 9.6 14 100 24.0 0 692.3 27 31.7 33.4 32.8 0 080 8.3 15 100 24.0 3 690.6 28 24.4 32.8 28.2 0 080 9.2 13 070 24.0 5 690.1 29 25.3 28.9 27.4 T 060 11.0 18 330 6.5 6 691.5 30 25.7 30.0 28.9 T 080 10.2 17 040 22.2 2 690.7 AVG 29.9 34.5 32.2 T 020 16.1 53 020 19.0 5 687.7 4th AVG MONTHLY -32.2 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 10 HIGHEST -24.4 ON 28th SUNSHINE 570.1/ 79% PARTLY CLOUDY 13 LOWEST -40.2 ON 5th CLOUDY 07 HIGH PRESSURE 697.8 ON 13th LOW PRESSURE 674.4 ON 5th NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: +0.10 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 -25.3 -24.4 Min T Changed Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 30.4 29.9 Avg Wnd Spd 16.5 16.1 Avg Press 687.0 687.7 Min T 34.1 34.5 Max Press Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 32.3 32.2 Min Press Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 6 9 12 13 21 23 26 27 28 From: 37.6 32.7 28.7 27.0 31.4 30.9 30.7 32.6 28.7 To: 35.0 31.7 27.2 26.7 30.6 27.8 30.6 31.7 24.4 Min Temp Day 1 3 4 7 8 14 15 17 20 23 25 28 29 30 From: 31.9 36.8 38.1 37.8 38.6 28.0 31.1 33.9 35.3 33.3 31.6 32.7 28.1 29.9 To: 35.0 37.2 39.4 38.3 39.4 28.3 31.7 35.6 35.6 33.9 32.8 32.8 28.9 30.0 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 30.9 33.7 33.9 36.1 37.6 38.2 36.2 36.5 36.1 31.8 31.1 29.5 28.0 26.9 29.6 31.8 To: 32.1 35.0 34.3 37.3 38.5 35.6 36.9 36.7 33.9 31.3 29.8 28.5 27.4 28.0 30.6 32.4 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 From: 32.7 34.7 33.0 33.2 33.5 31.8 32.1 29.8 29.0 32.4 33.0 30.7 26.7 27.8 To: 34.7 34.3 32.6 33.3 31.9 31.9 31.5 28.0 30.8 32.7 32.8 28.2 27.4 28.9 Number of NCDC observations per day: 8