***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1982 MONTH SEPTEMBER .... 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 65.0 70.6 69.0 T 070 10.9 15 060 0.0 0 670.6 2 68.0 70.8 70.0 T 050 9.5 17 050 0.0 0 668.7 3 68.9 71.4 69.6 T 090 9.8 14 060 0.0 1 673.3 4 64.4 70.9 66.6 T 080 16.4 22 080 0.0 0 670.7 5 64.1 69.4 67.5 T 070 11.8 23 070 0.0 2 665.1 6 62.6 69.8 64.3 T 030 12.0 18 020 0.0 0 670.3 7 57.8 64.9 58.4 T 020 18.4 30 010 0.0 2 670.7 8 56.8 65.6 63.1 T 070 9.2 25 010 0.0 2 671.4 9 64.3 70.0 67.4 T 080 11.5 16 080 0.0 0 669.4 10 65.6 71.0 69.8 T 090 10.8 16 080 0.0 0 664.7 11 63.9 72.2 67.8 T 020 12.6 18 070 0.0 3 661.3 12 62.2 70.0 65.1 T 010 13.2 23 010 0.0 3 658.7 13 63.9 75.7 73.1 T 060 6.9 16 010 0.0 2 662.2 14 61.7 75.3 64.8 T 360 6.3 12 060 0.0 2 666.4 15 61.4 66.1 62.3 T 010 21.9 27 010 0.0 3 666.5 16 56.1 63.4 57.9 T 020 21.5 30 010 0.0 5 670.3 17 55.9 61.7 60.5 T 360 16.7 32 350 0.0 6 679.3 18 50.0 63.0 51.8 T 350 17.8 29 350 0.0 6 684.1 19 47.4 55.6 52.3 T 060 13.8 23 360 0.0 5 683.4 20 51.0 57.4 55.6 T 070 8.6 21 360 0.0 2 674.9 21 53.3 66.1 62.1 0 030 10.6 17 060 0.0 2 664.1 22 60.6 67.2 65.8 0 070 9.2 27 020 0.0 1 665.3 23 60.0 72.0 67.1 0 030 6.6 15 050 0.0 2 672.1 24 53.9 71.7 56.5 T 010 9.8 23 360 0.0 8 672.3 25 53.5 60.1 59.2 T 350 10.3 23 360 0.0 4 674.4 26 40.6 61.7 44.7 T 330 19.6 33 330 0.0 6 671.4 27 36.1 45.9 37.8 T 250 8.1 36 310 0.0 5 673.2 28 34.8 63.9 60.5 T 110 6.7 13 120 1.9 2 673.8 29 51.4 64.2 54.0 T 350 10.9 16 360 5.9 4 673.8 30 47.6 54.5 50.5 T 350 14.9 25 360 0.0 7 676.3 AVG 56.8 66.1 61.2 T 070 12.2 36 310 0.3 3 670.6 27th AVG MONTHLY -61.2 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 17 HIGHEST -34.8 ON 28th SUNSHINE 7.8 1.1 PARTLY CLOUDY 11 LOWEST -75.7 ON 13th CLOUDY 02 HIGH PRESSURE 684.8 ON 19th LOW PRESSURE 658.8 ON 13th NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: +2.10 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 Min T -75.4 -75.7 Changed Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 57.9 56.8 Avg Wnd Spd 11.8 12.2 Avg Press 670.5 670.6 Min T 65.4 66.1 Max Press Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 61.6 61.2 Min Press Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 3 4 7 11 14 16 18 23 24 26 27 From: 69.1 67.0 58.3 68.3 66.1 57.8 51.5 66.0 59.3 45.9 37.8 To: 68.9 64.4 57.8 63.9 61.7 56.1 50.0 60.0 53.9 40.6 36.1 Min Temp Day 1 5 8 9 13 17 19 21 22 28 From: 68.9 69.2 62.6 67.5 75.4 61.2 52.3 63.2 66.2 59.6 To: 70.6 69.4 65.6 70.0 75.7 61.7 55.6 66.1 67.2 63.9 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 67.0 69.4 70.3 69.0 66.7 66.2 61.6 59.7 65.9 68.3 70.3 66.1 69.7 70.7 63.8 60.6 To: 69.0 70.0 69.6 66.6 67.5 64.3 58.4 63.1 67.4 69.8 67.8 65.1 73.1 64.8 62.3 57.9 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 From: 58.6 57.3 49.9 54.2 58.3 63.4 69.0 65.5 56.8 53.8 41.9 47.2 57.8 51.0 To: 60.5 51.8 52.3 55.6 62.1 65.8 67.1 56.5 59.2 44.7 37.8 60.5 54.0 50.5 Number of NCDC observations per day: 4