***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1982 MONTH OCTOBER .... 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 47.4 60.0 54.9 T 030 10.1 23 360 0.0 7 673.7 2 51.9 61.9 60.3 T 050 13.5 21 040 4.1 3 666.4 3 58.3 64.0 60.5 T 060 11.2 18 040 2.7 7 665.2 4 57.9 62.2 61.1 T 050 7.5 22 040 18.8 3 668.9 5 53.3 63.5 56.2 T 040 13.8 21 040 9.8 5 671.3 6 49.4 56.8 52.7 T 360 15.2 24 030 0.0 5 678.1 7 39.7 55.2 41.8 T 350 31.0 40 350 0.9 6 684.2 8 40.1 46.0 44.6 T 360 25.0 47 350 0.0 7 693.0 9 43.1 48.0 45.1 T 350 27.6 40 360 0.0 8 688.9 10 38.9 46.3 41.5 T 320 25.6 47 350 0.0 7 681.9 11 37.9 45.6 41.2 T 320 16.1 36 320 0.0 8 673.4 12 38.7 53.3 51.8 T 100 16.4 24 310 6.5 3 663.8 13 50.1 55.6 53.2 T 080 12.3 29 100 16.8 1 662.8 14 48.8 56.2 52.6 T 060 7.5 20 360 17.6 4 675.6 15 50.0 56.4 51.5 T 070 8.3 15 080 21.2 5 681.2 16 46.2 55.1 51.9 T 070 9.2 13 070 21.7 2 681.8 17 50.0 55.7 52.8 T 100 8.3 14 070 24.0 2 680.0 18 47.4 57.1 53.3 T 090 7.8 15 090 24.0 0 675.5 19 51.9 58.9 57.0 T 070 9.2 15 070 24.0 0 668.7 20 52.8 59.3 56.7 T 350 14.4 18 020 24.0 2 669.9 21 47.2 59.6 48.6 T 320 19.6 28 320 6.5 5 679.0 22 47.0 51.7 50.4 T 350 16.7 29 320 0.0 5 677.8 23 49.0 51.5 50.0 T 020 16.7 24 350 7.3 7 670.8 24 48.9 51.8 51.2 T 030 20.1 31 020 22.8 4 670.2 25 50.6 52.8 51.4 T 070 9.8 29 020 24.0 1 668.6 26 46.1 53.6 48.9 T 360 15.5 20 010 24.0 5 669.4 27 34.4 51.3 38.2 T 360 22.1 30 360 17.8 8 686.6 28 32.2 38.9 33.6 T 360 32.8 46 010 0.0 8 693.2 29 31.7 34.3 32.5 T 350 26.2 47 350 0.0 6 691.3 30 31.0 33.2 31.5 T 330 23.3 33 350 1.2 5 686.2 31 30.0 32.3 31.0 T 320 32.3 43 330 0.0 8 682.2 AVG 45.2 52.5 48.6 T 350 16.9 47 350 10.3 5 676.8 8th,10th,29th AVG MONTHLY -48.7 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 07 HIGHEST -30.0 ON 31st SUNSHINE 319.7 43.0 PARTLY CLOUDY 14 LOWEST -64.0 ON 3rd CLOUDY 10 HIGH PRESSURE 693.1 ON 9th,29th LOW PRESSURE 660.9 ON 13th NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: +0.90 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 -30.9 -30.0 Min T Changed Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 45.9 45.2 Avg Wnd Spd 16.4 16.9 Avg Press 676.6 676.8 Min T 52.1 52.5 Max Press Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 49.0 48.6 Min Press Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 3 5 6 10 15 17 20 21 26 27 28 29 31 From: 59.9 55.2 50.8 42.7 50.1 51.0 55.0 48.0 49.2 38.6 32.8 31.8 30.9 To: 58.3 53.3 49.4 38.9 50.0 50.0 52.8 47.2 46.1 34.4 32.2 31.7 30.0 Min Temp Day 1 4 11 12 13 19 22 25 From: 54.0 61.3 43.9 53.2 53.8 56.4 51.4 52.7 To: 60.0 62.2 45.6 53.3 55.6 58.9 51.7 52.8 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 50.7 56.9 62.0 59.6 59.4 53.8 47.5 43.0 45.5 44.5 40.9 46.0 52.0 52.5 53.3 50.7 To: 54.9 60.3 60.5 61.1 56.2 52.7 41.8 44.6 45.1 41.5 41.2 51.8 53.2 52.6 51.5 51.9 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 From: 53.4 52.3 54.2 57.2 53.8 49.2 50.3 50.4 51.7 51.4 45.0 35.9 33.0 32.1 31.6 To: 52.8 53.3 57.0 56.7 48.6 50.4 50.0 51.2 51.4 48.9 38.2 33.6 32.5 31.5 31.0 Number of NCDC observations per day: 4