***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1982 MONTH AUGUST .... 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 50.6 62.9 53.8 T 040 14.7 30 030 M 2 672.9 2 50.1 64.4 59.4 T 050 8.9 30 010 M 1 678.3 3 58.3 68.3 67.1 T 090 7.5 15 060 M 0 675.2 4 66.0 68.9 68.0 T 090 7.8 13 100 M 2 670.5 5 60.3 70.6 62.9 T 010 15.9 23 350 M 3 673.2 6 60.6 65.0 62.5 T 020 21.0 28 010 M 6 675.0 7 56.1 64.0 57.6 T 020 18.1 35 360 M 6 678.6 8 41.7 59.7 44.4 T 330 14.7 28 350 M 7 679.6 9 38.3 55.0 48.4 T 190 9.5 23 200 M 8 680.2 10 46.0 55.0 50.8 T 360 9.2 17 180 M 5 678.9 11 48.5 58.9 55.1 T 010 7.2 13 360 M 7 677.7 12 52.8 61.2 55.7 T 080 10.1 17 010 M 7 676.1 13 52.1 65.0 63.6 T 090 16.1 24 090 M 0 676.3 14 63.5 67.2 65.0 T 090 13.6 27 100 M 0 676.3 15 47.2 67.0 52.6 T 350 17.8 27 360 M 3 668.9 16 46.9 58.3 55.0 T 360 20.7 29 360 M 4 670.5 17 53.5 60.6 60.0 T 030 14.1 30 360 M 7 676.6 18 59.6 61.1 60.7 T 050 11.2 20 030 M 8 674.2 19 60.6 69.4 65.5 T 080 11.5 17 060 M 4 669.0 20 63.5 72.9 71.0 T 030 12.7 20 070 M 0 667.2 21 66.7 73.0 67.4 T 030 10.9 24 030 M 2 670.1 22 65.6 72.8 69.4 T 030 12.1 20 030 M 2 666.1 23 67.8 75.2 71.9 T 030 11.7 16 030 M 1 665.2 24 66.1 75.0 70.1 T 110 16.1 25 090 M 2 656.2 25 67.8 72.0 69.4 T 080 13.8 30 120 M 3 662.7 26 62.2 70.9 65.4 T 060 9.5 16 060 M 3 671.8 27 56.7 67.8 59.7 T 060 12.4 16 030 M 8 669.9 28 51.0 64.4 56.9 T 040 10.0 22 030 M 8 670.6 29 54.6 65.0 64.0 T 060 10.6 23 070 M 3 674.8 30 63.7 68.3 67.5 T 080 11.5 18 080 M 2 674.9 31 66.7 68.1 67.2 T 090 10.0 16 030 M 0 674.0 AVG 56.9 66.1 61.6 T 030 12.6 35 360 M 4 672.6 7th AVG MONTHLY -61.6 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 13 HIGHEST -38.3 ON 9th SUNSHINE M PARTLY CLOUDY 10 LOWEST -75.2 ON 23rd CLOUDY 08 HIGH PRESSURE 680.8 ON 10th LOW PRESSURE 655.6 ON 25th NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: +1.50 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 -38.4 -38.3 Min T -75.0 -75.2 Changed Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 57.6 56.9 Avg Wnd Spd Avg Press 672.5 672.6 Min T 64.9 66.1 Max Press Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 61.2 61.6 Min Press Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 1 6 7 8 9 15 21 26 27 From: 51.3 62.4 56.8 44.9 38.4 50.0 67.4 67.5 60.4 To: 50.6 60.6 56.1 41.7 38.3 47.2 66.7 62.2 56.7 Min Temp Day 2 3 4 9 11 13 14 16 17 19 22 23 28 30 From: 58.8 67.7 68.4 46.0 58.3 64.8 65.1 53.5 60.4 63.9 68.2 74.8 61.9 68.0 To: 64.4 68.3 68.9 55.0 58.9 65.0 67.2 58.3 60.6 69.4 72.8 75.2 64.4 68.3 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 57.1 54.5 63.0 67.2 65.4 63.7 60.4 52.3 42.2 50.5 53.4 57.0 58.5 64.3 58.5 50.2 To: 53.8 59.4 67.1 68.0 62.9 62.5 57.6 44.4 48.4 50.8 55.1 55.7 63.6 65.0 52.6 55.0 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 From: 57.0 60.3 62.3 68.2 70.2 66.9 71.3 70.6 69.9 69.2 64.1 56.5 59.8 65.8 67.4 To: 60.0 60.7 65.5 71.0 67.4 69.4 71.9 70.1 69.4 65.4 59.7 56.9 64.0 67.5 67.2 Number of NCDC observations per day: 4