***Corrected Winter 2010***

LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION

YEAR	1983
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	53.0	63.3	59.4	T	040	 8.7	28	020	M	4	688.8
2	57.9	68.9	66.1	T	080	 5.8	17	030	M	4	688.1
3	64.8	70.3	68.2	T	100	 6.1	 9	090	M	4	686.0
4	64.3	69.3	66.0	T	100	 6.0	15	100	M	4	679.9
5	64.9	68.3	66.8	T	080	 2.6	13	080	M	4	672.9
6	61.7	69.0	64.4	T	020	15.5	26	020	M	4	671.9
7	48.3	64.6	51.5	T	010	22.5	36	360	M	6	675.3
8	48.0	56.8	53.6	T	040	19.8	36	360	M	4	669.7
9	52.1	56.2	53.9	T	020	17.0	31	010	M	4	672.9
10	53.1	65.3	60.8	T	360	11.8	29	020	M	4	678.9
11	42.2	65.9	45.1	T	310	12.6	27	330	M	4	689.7
12	35.0	45.6	39.0	T	330	10.6	23	310	M	4	693.7
13	29.6	41.7	30.7	T	160	11.2	18	330	M	6	693.0
14	29.8	51.7	47.4	T	070	28.7	43	120	M	5	682.5
15	45.8	52.0	48.7	T	030	28.4	45	050	M	4	688.9
16	46.5	54.7	53.3	T	040	17.8	51	030	M	4	684.9
17	44.3	55.0	46.9	T	360	14.9	38	010	M	4	675.8
18	44.6	63.6	61.4	T	050	 5.5	23	350	M	4	678.0
19	56.7	64.7	62.1	T	060	 4.6	 9	050	M	4	673.6
20	60.4	67.5	62.7	T	030	 6.9	13	060	M	4	669.7
21	58.9	65.9	60.0	T	030	15.2	22	030	M	4	664.2
22	58.4	65.4	63.6	T	360	15.0	24	020	M	4	657.6
23	61.7	75.2	72.2	T	110	 2.3	24	360	M	4	664.6
24	70.0	75.7	72.0	T	080	 7.8	13	120	M	4	661.0
25	63.3	74.8	67.5	T	070	10.1	16	070	M	4	658.7
26	59.4	70.1	61.5	T	020	14.9	27	010	M	4	658.7
27	60.7	64.1	63.0	T	020	13.5	23	010	M	4	662.4
28	61.7	63.9	62.9	T	020	13.3	21	010	M	4	663.6
29	62.0	68.9	65.7	T	040	 6.3	21	020	M	4	663.3
30	63.0	70.0	68.3	T	050	 5.4	15	050	M	4	650.8

AVG	54.1	63.6	58.8	T	020	12.0	51	030	M	4	674.0
							16th
AVG MONTHLY	-58.8		PCPN	TRACE			NR DAYS CLEAR	00
HIGHEST	-29.6	ON 13th		SUNSHINE	M		PARTLY CLOUDY 	30
LOWEST	-75.7	ON 24th						CLOUDY		00
				HIGH PRESSURE	694.7	ON 13th
				LOW PRESSURE	651.5	ON 30th
NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD:	+0.40 inches

Insufficient Data available for Sunshine Hours Computation.

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	54.8	54.1	Avg Wnd Spd	12.5	12.0	Avg Press		674.7	674.0
Min T	63.0	63.6	Max Press			Fastest Wnd MPH
Avg T	58.9	58.8	Min Press

Changes to Daily Data:
Max Temp	Day	6	7	11	12	21	24	25	28
		From:	63.6	51.9	45.4	39.7	59.7	72.0	67.4	61.8
		To:	61.7	48.3	42.2	35.0	58.9	70.0	63.3	61.7

Min Temp	Day	1	2	14	23	28	29
		From:	58.4	66.2	46.4	73.5	63.6	66.0
		To:	63.3	68.9	51.7	75.2	63.9	68.9

Avg Temp	Day	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
		From:	55.7	62.0	67.6	66.8	66.6	66.3	58.3	52.4	54.2	59.2	55.7	42.7	35.7	38.1	48.9	50.6
		To:	59.4	66.1	68.2	66.0	66.8	64.4	51.5	53.6	53.9	60.8	45.1	39.0	30.7	47.4	48.7	53.3
		Day	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
		From:	49.7	54.1	60.7	64.0	62.8	61.9	67.6	73.8	71.1	64.8	62.4	62.7	64.0	66.5
		To:	46.9	61.4	62.1	62.7	60.0	63.6	72.2	72.0	67.5	61.5	63.0	62.9	65.7	68.3

Number of NCDC observations per day: 4