***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1982 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 22.1 25.8 23.1 T 060 3.6 13 050 6.0 8 692.2 2 21.7 24.2 23.0 T 020 9.9 18 030 7.7 7 694.8 3 20.7 25.0 23.9 T 010 15.5 27 360 9.1 7 691.6 4 23.1 26.0 24.5 T 350 10.3 20 350 24.0 6 690.0 5 22.8 25.6 24.0 T 040 5.8 14 030 6.6 7 687.6 6 23.7 25.5 24.3 T 210 6.5 16 310 5.2 8 690.7 7 24.0 28.3 27.2 T 160 2.8 13 280 6.7 7 693.2 8 27.2 29.1 28.4 T 080 5.2 12 210 11.1 3 691.5 9 26.8 29.2 28.5 T 090 6.8 16 090 19.0 1 686.9 10 27.1 29.4 28.0 T 080 1.8 12 080 23.9 6 687.2 11 26.5 30.1 29.1 T 040 6.7 10 050 24.0 2 687.4 12 26.8 31.1 30.6 T 090 5.4 17 040 18.8 2 687.0 13 27.9 31.2 29.5 0 110 1.2 7 120 24.0 2 687.4 14 28.5 31.7 30.5 T 340 5.3 12 330 24.0 6 689.7 15 28.3 31.8 30.2 T 070 10.6 16 070 23.3 2 690.6 16 25.7 31.0 27.5 T 020 11.4 21 060 17.3 7 688.9 17 26.0 31.7 29.8 T 060 3.9 18 020 19.0 4 690.7 18 29.1 32.2 31.3 T 080 7.9 12 090 24.0 3 695.8 19 31.0 33.2 32.3 0 080 6.7 15 080 23.1 2 694.4 20 31.7 33.9 32.9 0 070 6.5 12 080 24.0 2 690.5 21 30.2 33.9 31.9 T 360 9.2 16 360 12.6 7 692.9 22 28.3 32.7 30.2 0 010 6.6 17 360 16.6 8 694.4 23 28.0 33.6 32.2 T 110 4.8 12 010 14.0 4 694.6 24 30.2 33.9 33.2 T 100 7.6 15 090 20.5 2 690.4 25 32.9 35.9 34.6 0 070 6.2 14 070 24.0 2 685.6 26 33.3 35.1 34.0 0 080 9.5 15 070 24.0 2 680.3 27 27.2 35.0 29.7 T 040 11.6 16 040 22.6 7 678.3 28 25.2 31.4 27.5 T 360 15.1 25 010 12.8 7 687.1 29 25.8 32.8 29.9 T 360 9.6 21 010 11.8 5 694.8 30 28.0 35.0 33.5 T 050 8.2 16 070 22.9 3 691.5 31 23.9 35.5 29.0 T 030 17.6 21 040 17.9 5 686.3 AVG 26.9 31.0 29.2 T 080 7.7 27 360 17.4 5 689.8 3rd AVG MONTHLY -29.2 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 10 HIGHEST -20.7 ON 3rd SUNSHINE 540.5 72.6 PARTLY CLOUDY 10 LOWEST -35.9 ON 25th CLOUDY 11 HIGH PRESSURE 696.2 ON 19th LOW PRESSURE 678.1 ON 27th NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: 9.99 SNOWSTAKE DATA NOT AVAILABLE. 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 Changed Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 27.4 26.9 Avg Wnd Spd 7.6 7.7 Avg Press Min T 30.7 31.0 Max Press Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 29.1 29.2 Min Press Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 2 5 15 20 22 26 27 31 From: 22.2 22.9 29.8 31.9 30.7 34.4 29.8 30.5 To: 21.7 22.8 28.3 31.7 28.3 33.3 27.2 23.9 Min Temp Day 5 7 10 12 14 17 18 20 24 29 30 From: 25.3 28.0 29.3 30.7 31.0 30.6 31.6 33.8 33.6 30.0 33.7 To: 25.6 28.3 29.4 31.1 31.7 31.7 32.2 33.9 33.9 32.8 35.0 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 24.0 23.2 22.9 24.6 24.1 24.6 26.0 28.2 28.0 28.2 28.3 28.8 29.6 29.8 30.8 28.4 To: 23.1 23.0 23.9 24.5 24.0 24.3 27.2 28.4 28.5 28.0 29.1 30.6 29.5 30.5 30.2 27.5 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 From: 28.3 30.4 32.1 32.8 32.1 31.7 30.8 31.9 34.4 34.8 32.4 28.3 27.9 30.9 33.0 To: 29.8 31.3 32.3 32.9 31.9 30.2 32.2 33.2 34.6 34.0 29.7 27.5 29.9 33.5 29.0 Number of NCDC observations per day: 8