***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1983 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 49.8 68.9 63.8 T 020 8.1 30 020 M 4 669.0 2 60.0 69.7 60.8 T 040 6.3 13 030 M 4 668.6 3 58.8 66.7 65.6 T 060 6.9 12 030 M 4 669.2 4 60.0 67.8 62.9 T 040 11.5 20 040 M 4 669.6 5 59.4 71.7 68.9 T 050 8.3 23 040 M 4 664.7 6 59.4 72.1 60.7 T 020 11.8 20 020 M 4 665.3 7 57.8 65.1 62.5 T 100 5.5 22 010 M 4 663.6 8 54.4 70.0 66.9 T 080 7.4 12 090 M 4 659.0 9 54.4 71.0 59.6 T 010 16.4 24 040 M 4 660.9 10 48.9 61.8 50.8 T 020 19.9 35 010 M 4 664.3 11 48.8 59.4 56.1 T 020 16.7 32 020 M 4 668.7 12 54.4 62.8 58.3 T 030 11.5 25 010 M 4 663.0 13 55.7 67.2 63.2 T 020 7.5 21 030 M 4 670.8 14 59.3 70.6 69.4 T 070 6.3 16 020 M 4 671.5 15 67.8 72.3 69.9 T 080 6.0 10 080 M 4 665.0 16 55.6 73.1 62.1 T 030 11.2 16 030 M 4 677.1 17 46.9 67.2 49.5 T 010 26.2 38 010 M 4 679.9 18 45.8 58.9 55.6 T 010 14.9 39 010 M 4 684.1 19 55.0 64.6 58.6 T 010 13.8 25 020 M 4 685.2 20 50.0 62.8 52.2 T 360 23.9 32 010 M 4 684.3 21 48.7 53.9 51.5 T 020 19.3 32 360 M 4 686.9 22 50.3 58.9 57.6 T 040 10.9 28 360 M 4 691.3 23 51.8 59.3 53.0 T 360 18.7 28 360 M 6 692.3 24 51.7 61.1 59.7 T 040 10.0 24 010 M 4 692.1 25 55.1 64.6 59.6 T 060 10.3 17 050 M 4 683.7 26 56.5 68.1 65.8 T 050 6.9 22 110 M 4 676.2 27 60.0 68.7 62.3 T 020 12.4 18 040 M 4 681.4 28 55.0 63.7 56.0 T 030 17.8 28 360 M 4 691.0 29 54.4 58.3 56.0 T 020 15.0 27 010 M 4 686.3 30 52.8 59.1 53.7 T 010 23.3 30 010 M 4 684.2 31 52.7 55.1 53.6 T 020 17.8 33 010 M 4 688.0 AVG 54.6 65.0 59.6 T 020 13.0 39 010 M 4 676.0 18th AVG MONTHLY -59.6 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 00 HIGHEST -45.8 ON 18th SUNSHINE M PARTLY CLOUDY 31 LOWEST -73.1 ON 16th CLOUDY 00 HIGH PRESSURE 693.8 ON 24th LOW PRESSURE 658.5 ON 8th NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: +0.70 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 Changed Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 55.4 54.6 Avg Wnd Spd 12.9 13.0 Avg Press 675.5 676.0 Min T 64.1 65.0 Max Press Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 59.7 59.6 Min Press Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 2 6 7 9 10 15 16 20 27 28 30 From: 60.7 60.5 59.0 61.7 50.5 68.3 62.9 51.7 62.4 55.7 53.2 To: 60.0 59.4 57.8 54.4 48.9 67.8 55.6 50.0 60.0 55.0 52.8 Min Temp Day 1 3 5 8 11 13 14 18 21 22 24 29 From: 62.5 65.7 69.7 68.7 54.3 64.7 70.1 55.1 53.4 58.1 60.6 56.6 To: 68.9 66.7 71.7 70.0 59.4 67.2 70.6 58.9 53.9 58.9 61.1 58.3 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 56.2 65.2 62.3 63.9 64.6 66.3 62.0 61.5 66.3 56.2 51.5 58.6 60.2 64.7 70.3 68.0 To: 63.8 60.8 65.6 62.9 68.9 60.7 62.5 66.9 59.6 50.8 56.1 58.3 63.2 69.4 69.9 62.1 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 From: 57.0 50.5 59.8 57.3 51.1 54.2 55.5 56.2 59.8 62.3 65.6 59.7 55.5 56.2 53.9 To: 49.5 55.6 58.6 52.2 51.5 57.6 53.0 59.7 59.6 65.8 62.3 56.0 56.0 53.7 53.6 Number of NCDC observations per day: 4