***Corrected Winter 2010***

LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION

YEAR	1983
MONTH	DECEMBER		.... 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	36.1	38.9	37.0	0	030	12.2	16	330	24.0	8	682.9
2	35.0	37.0	35.8	0	020	14.4	17	020	24.0	8	683.5
3	32.2	36.2	33.5	0	020	17.7	24	020	23.6	7	683.0
4	32.1	35.0	33.5	T	010	 5.8	24	020	20.1	4	685.6
5	33.0	35.6	34.9	T	070	 7.2	12	060	24.0	0	683.0
6	33.9	35.7	34.9	0	020	11.6	18	360	24.0	0	682.3
7	31.7	35.3	33.2	T	010	14.3	21	020	24.0	6	686.9
8	28.3	34.0	30.1	T	010	15.5	21	360	24.0	4	688.3
9	27.8	30.4	28.5	T	360	14.0	23	350	21.6	7	687.7
10	28.3	30.1	29.1	T	020	14.3	20	020	23.4	6	685.0
11	28.4	31.1	29.7	T	350	 7.2	20	350	21.7	6	690.8
12	29.0	31.4	30.2	T	010	 7.2	12	010	24.0	1	696.1
13	28.9	31.1	29.8	0	060	 4.6	13	010	24.0	6	697.1
14	28.1	29.9	28.8	0	060	 7.1	13	060	24.0	1	690.2
15	28.5	29.4	29.0	0	050	 7.1	12	060	24.0	0	685.7
16	28.3	30.4	28.7	0	060	 5.6	10	050	24.0	1	682.8
17	28.3	29.3	28.9	0	020	 5.5	 9	030	24.0	4	683.8
18	28.9	31.8	30.3	T	030	 5.6	15	030	11.9	5	684.9
19	30.6	31.8	31.4	T	030	 1.3	 8	030	24.0	6	684.5
20	29.8	32.2	31.6	T	040	 6.2 	 9	020	24.0	2	684.5
21	28.2	32.2	28.8	T	360	 7.9	14	360	21.1	8	684.1
22	27.8	28.9	28.2	T	010	10.8	15	010	14.4	5	686.7
23	26.7	28.3	27.6	0	040	10.7	17	020	24.0	0	686.5
24	26.7	27.8	27.2	T	360	 9.5	17	030	21.3	6	691.3
25	26.4	28.3	27.8	T	070	 6.5	15	360	22.2	6	692.9
26	24.4	28.3	25.1	T	010	 7.2	12	020	20.7	6	686.0
27	24.0	26.1	25.2	T	010	 7.2	15	360	11.7	6	685.9
28	24.4	27.1	25.9	T	350	 5.4	13	350	17.6	7	684.8
29	24.4	27.8	27.2	T	010	 3.2	14	350	10.8	4	685.7
30	26.6	29.4	28.0	T	100	 4.6	 7	120	22.8	2	683.6
31	25.7	28.1	27.1	0	090	 5.6	10	090	24.0	0	681.0

AVG	28.8	31.3	29.9	T	010	 8.5	24	020	21.6	4	686.4
							3rd,4th
AVG MONTHLY	-29.9		PCPN	TRACE			NR DAYS CLEAR	10
HIGHEST	-24.0	ON 27th		SUNSHINE	668.9/ 90%	PARTLY CLOUDY 	15
LOWEST	-38.9	ON 1st						CLOUDY		06
				HIGH PRESSURE	698.5	ON 13th
				LOW PRESSURE	680.1	ON 6th

NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD:	-0.20 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	29.2	28.8	Avg Wnd Spd	7.9	8.5	Avg Press
Min T	31.1	31.3	Max Press			Fastest Wnd MPH
Avg T	30.1	29.9	Min Press

Changes to Daily Data:
Max Temp	Day	1	2	3	6	7	8	9	13	16	18	19	23	26
		From:	36.4	36.0	33.8	35.0	33.8	30.3	27.9	29.6	28.4	30.8	30.8	27.5	24.6
		To:	36.1	35.0	32.2	33.9	31.7	28.3	27.8	28.9	28.3	28.9	30.6	26.7	24.4

Min Temp	Day	4	5	11	13	20	22	25	27	29
		From:	34.1	35.4	29.6	31.0	31.9	28.7	28.1	25.3	26.9
		To:	35.0	35.6	31.1	31.1	32.2	28.9	28.3	26.1	27.8

Avg Temp	Day	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
		From:	37.7	36.5	35.0	33.1	34.2	35.4	34.5	32.2	29.1	29.2	29.0	30.2	30.3	29.0	29.0	29.4
		To:	37.0	35.8	33.5	33.5	34.9	34.9	33.2	30.1	28.5	29.1	29.7	30.2	29.8	28.8	29.0	28.7
		Day	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
		From:	28.8	31.3	31.3	30.9	30.2	28.3	27.9	27.3	27.3	26.5	24.6	25.8	25.6	28.0	26.9
		To:	28.9	30.3	31.4	31.6	28.8	28.2	27.6	27.2	27.8	25.1	25.2	25.9	27.2	28.0	27.1

Number of NCDC observations per day: 8