***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1982 MONTH FEBRUARY .... 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 22.8 30.5 24.0 T 340 11.4 32 010 4.4 8 688.8 2 22.8 28.6 26.5 T 340 9.7 16 330 6.8 6 692.8 3 24.4 31.7 27.4 T 360 9.1 20 320 2.0 8 692.4 4 26.2 35.0 31.6 T 080 4.9 12 020 4.3 5 691.8 5 26.1 35.9 30.1 T 100 3.2 10 130 14.6 7 690.3 6 25.9 38.9 36.1 T 120 10.7 18 120 20.9 3 686.0 7 31.9 41.1 40.1 T 120 10.8 17 120 23.9 1 681.1 8 39.6 41.7 41.0 T 130 8.2 16 120 24.0 3 682.7 9 39.3 45.6 44.3 0 120 3.7 15 120 24.0 0 685.1 10 43.8 50.0 47.2 T 090 1.9 6 070 24.0 0 685.1 11 45.9 48.1 46.1 T 090 10.9 16 090 24.0 0 686.3 12 43.9 46.6 45.5 0 060 9.5 15 090 24.0 0 684.6 13 41.0 46.7 41.8 T 050 13.2 23 040 24.0 0 681.8 14 41.0 44.8 44.3 T 060 7.2 22 040 24.0 2 683.2 15 41.7 46.1 44.0 0 030 6.7 12 080 24.0 7 688.4 16 35.0 46.0 39.4 T 020 7.4 15 020 11.4 5 690.8 17 34.5 47.2 45.8 T 050 8.1 15 050 20.2 2 684.1 18 36.7 48.0 43.9 T 040 9.5 14 040 23.8 2 682.4 19 31.7 48.5 33.7 T 020 14.4 18 040 8.2 7 682.2 20 31.0 36.8 33.3 T 020 14.1 20 020 0.0 8 680.5 21 33.4 43.3 41.5 T 060 10.3 22 040 18.1 2 677.6 22 39.7 48.9 45.5 T 050 6.7 15 050 19.7 0 677.6 23 42.2 50.6 49.6 T 060 6.4 10 080 24.0 3 676.1 24 47.2 51.5 50.8 T 060 5.8 10 070 24.0 4 677.1 25 49.2 53.9 52.1 T 070 4.9 8 070 23.7 6 677.4 26 51.0 54.4 54.1 T 070 6.1 8 080 24.0 2 677.2 27 54.0 55.8 55.3 T 040 5.8 7 060 24.0 3 678.0 28 52.8 56.3 53.7 T 040 9.8 14 030 23.9 4 679.8 AVG 37.7 44.7 41.7 T 060 8.2 32 010 18.4 4 683.6 1st AVG MONTHLY -41.7 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 12 HIGHEST -22.8 ON 1st,2nd SUNSHINE 513.9 76.5 PARTLY CLOUDY 09 LOWEST -56.3 ON 28th CLOUDY 06 HIGH PRESSURE 693.1 ON 3rd LOW PRESSURE 676.1 ON 24th NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: +0.50 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 Min T Changed Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 38.2 37.7 Avg Wnd Spd Avg Press Min T 44.0 44.7 Max Press Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 41.1 41.7 Min Press Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 1 5 12 15 18 19 28 From: 22.9 26.5 45.8 43.0 45.5 34.0 54.0 To: 22.8 26.1 43.9 41.7 36.7 31.7 52.8 Min Temp Day 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 15 17 21 22 23 25 26 From: 29.4 32.4 36.5 40.3 41.5 44.4 47.0 46.0 45.7 42.4 46.1 50.4 52.6 54.2 To: 31.7 35.0 38.9 41.1 41.7 45.6 50.0 46.1 47.2 43.3 48.9 50.6 53.9 54.4 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 26.7 25.7 26.9 29.3 31.2 31.2 36.1 40.5 41.9 45.4 47.0 46.2 43.9 42.9 44.5 40.5 To: 24.0 26.5 27.4 31.6 30.1 36.1 40.1 41.0 44.3 47.2 46.1 45.5 41.8 44.3 44.0 39.4 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 From: 40.1 46.8 41.3 33.9 37.9 42.9 46.3 49.4 50.9 52.6 54.9 55.2 To: 45.8 43.9 33.7 33.3 41.5 45.5 49.6 50.8 52.1 54.1 55.3 53.7 Number of NCDC observations per day: 8 (1st-9th) 6 (10th) 4 (11th-28th)