***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1982 MONTH APRIL .... 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 65.4 69.4 68.3 T 070 2.3 8 080 M 2 673.6 2 64.4 69.9 66.7 0 050 4.9 9 060 M 3 674.4 3 63.8 68.2 64.6 0 060 7.5 13 050 M 4 677.0 4 62.8 67.2 65.4 0 070 5.2 13 050 M 2 676.3 5 62.1 68.9 67.9 0 080 6.9 12 080 M 1 669.2 6 67.3 71.7 71.0 0 110 3.7 12 080 M 0 664.9 7 68.5 75.2 74.2 0 090 2.2 10 090 M 0 660.9 8 67.8 75.1 71.0 0 100 4.9 13 100 M 0 666.4 9 55.6 72.4 58.3 0 010 13.5 21 040 M 1 657.1 10 53.6 59.4 56.8 0 010 19.2 28 010 M 4 659.1 11 47.2 58.4 52.2 0 010 21.9 29 020 M 4 666.4 12 37.8 55.6 41.1 0 360 23.3 37 360 M 4 670.6 13 35.7 41.1 37.6 0 360 22.7 36 340 M 6 679.4 14 36.9 52.2 51.0 T 020 14.7 31 340 M 5 684.4 15 45.7 52.9 46.9 T 360 20.1 28 360 M 5 689.6 16 43.7 47.5 46.1 T 360 25.3 31 360 M 4 691.7 17 37.2 47.6 40.3 T 350 27.3 38 350 M 5 692.1 18 36.0 42.2 38.7 T 330 14.7 38 340 M 6 693.0 19 35.2 43.3 38.7 0 120 10.3 18 110 M 8 687.4 20 34.3 47.4 44.7 T 350 7.8 14 010 M 8 679.6 21 42.9 52.2 51.1 T 350 13.3 21 350 M 7 677.5 22 50.4 56.1 55.3 T 360 18.1 25 350 M 4 676.9 23 55.0 58.8 56.5 T 020 18.1 27 020 M 4 674.1 24 54.2 62.2 58.3 T 030 8.1 25 020 M 1 671.0 25 56.2 65.5 58.5 T 010 13.8 20 360 M 3 674.7 26 48.9 59.5 53.5 T 010 17.2 27 360 M 4 678.0 27 47.5 55.7 50.5 T 360 23.3 35 360 M 4 677.5 28 51.2 55.2 53.6 T 350 16.9 32 360 M 3 677.6 29 43.3 54.8 46.6 T 360 26.7 32 360 M 4 677.9 30 42.9 49.4 47.5 T 030 22.4 39 360 M 4 677.4 AVG 50.5 58.5 54.4 T 070 14.5 39 360 M 4 675.9 30th AVG MONTHLY -54.4 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 08 HIGHEST -34.3 ON 20th SUNSHINE M PARTLY CLOUDY 19 LOWEST -75.2 ON 7th CLOUDY 03 HIGH PRESSURE 693.1 ON 18th LOW PRESSURE 655.4 ON 10th NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: +1.90 inches SUNSHINE 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 -75.1 -75.2 Changed Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 51.5 50.5 Avg Wnd Spd 14.1 14.5 Avg Press Min T 58.1 58.5 Max Press Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 54.8 54.4 Min Press Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 2 8 9 11 12 17 26 29 From: 66.4 72.1 56.6 52.9 39.4 41.6 55.4 48.3 To: 64.4 67.8 55.6 47.2 37.8 37.2 48.9 43.3 Min Temp Day 1 4 5 6 7 14 18 19 21 22 24 30 From: 69.0 66.6 68.3 71.3 74.0 51.3 42.0 42.9 51.1 55.0 57.0 48.5 To: 69.4 67.2 68.9 71.7 75.2 52.2 42.2 43.3 52.2 56.1 62.2 49.4 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 67.2 68.2 66.0 64.7 65.2 69.3 71.3 73.6 64.5 56.5 55.7 47.5 38.4 44.1 49.3 45.6 To: 68.3 66.7 64.6 65.4 67.9 71.0 74.2 71.0 58.3 56.8 52.2 41.1 37.6 51.0 44.9 46.1 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 From: 44.6 39.0 39.1 40.9 47.0 52.7 56.9 55.6 60.9 57.5 51.6 53.2 51.5 45.7 To: 40.3 38.7 38.7 44.7 51.1 55.3 56.5 58.3 58.5 53.5 50.5 53.6 46.6 47.5 Number of NCDC observations per day: 4