***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1984 MONTH JANUARY .... 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 26.7 28.9 28.0 0 090 2.9 12 090 24.0 0 682.3 2 26.6 29.4 28.9 T 280 5.5 14 290 19.6 6 687.3 3 28.5 30.5 29.8 T 030 5.8 12 290 14.5 5 686.9 4 27.7 30.3 29.5 T 080 7.6 10 020 18.8 0 686.5 5 27.2 30.0 29.1 0 080 8.5 13 080 24.0 3 689.4 6 26.3 29.7 27.7 T 040 9.0 16 040 9.3 5 688.4 7 26.7 29.3 28.0 T 020 8.3 16 020 18.4 1 687.8 8 27.6 28.4 28.1 T 050 8.5 15 020 19.6 3 688.8 9 27.0 28.4 27.7 T 040 9.5 18 060 15.0 1 685.0 10 27.6 30.0 29.2 T 020 7.1 14 020 19.6 6 688.0 11 28.3 31.1 29.8 T 020 8.2 14 020 9.3 8 690.8 12 26.6 29.7 28.0 T 020 12.4 21 010 18.9 6 688.8 13 23.3 28.7 27.1 T 350 11.6 17 010 22.8 4 691.4 14 21.1 28.5 23.1 T 010 17.3 27 010 8.7 8 693.4 15 20.4 28.9 23.4 T 290 12.1 25 010 7.2 8 690.5 16 21.6 28.7 24.7 T 360 12.2 18 360 12.2 8 693.1 17 20.0 25.7 21.6 T 360 7.4 24 010 0.0 8 691.6 18 19.0 24.7 20.6 T 330 11.5 20 320 3.2 7 699.2 19 19.5 26.6 25.7 T 010 11.8 24 340 14.1 7 707.1 20 23.5 27.2 25.3 T 050 8.6 22 020 10.3 8 708.1 21 24.0 27.7 26.7 T 030 7.1 13 050 9.9 6 706.8 22 26.0 30.5 29.5 0 050 5.5 13 010 23.7 4 704.5 23 27.7 31.6 29.9 0 070 10.6 16 080 23.8 3 696.7 24 26.6 31.6 28.1 T 340 15.2 23 010 19.4 6 692.2 25 25.0 32.1 27.1 T 010 14.9 25 360 5.9 8 695.5 26 24.3 30.0 29.3 T 030 12.2 23 010 5.0 1 696.4 27 27.1 31.7 29.4 T 040 10.7 20 360 19.6 4 697.2 28 27.2 31.7 29.2 T 020 15.4 23 020 21.3 6 695.5 29 26.3 31.6 29.0 T 010 14.3 24 010 18.4 6 697.8 30 28.1 32.9 30.6 T 360 9.1 18 310 21.1 7 697.7 31 28.0 33.5 32.2 T 010 9.5 15 030 17.7 7 695.2 AVG 25.3 29.7 27.6 T 010 10.0 27 010 15.3 5 693.5 14th AVG MONTHLY -27.6 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 05 HIGHEST -19.0 ON 18th SUNSHINE 475.3/ 64% PARTLY CLOUDY 15 LOWEST -33.5 ON 31st CLOUDY 11 HIGH PRESSURE 708.6 ON 20th LOW PRESSURE 680.5 ON 1st 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 Min T Changed Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 25.7 25.3 Avg Wnd Spd Avg Press 693.3 693.5 Min T 29.4 29.7 Max Press Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 27.5 27.6 Min Press Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 5 11 12 13 14 16 23 24 28 From: 29.3 28.6 27.2 26.3 22.6 22.5 29.0 26.7 27.7 To: 27.2 28.3 26.6 23.3 21.1 21.6 27.7 26.6 27.2 Min Temp Day 1 2 3 5 10 19 20 21 22 24 26 27 29 From: 28.4 29.1 30.4 29.9 29.1 26.0 26.5 27.4 29.8 30.9 29.6 30.2 30.3 To: 28.9 29.4 30.5 30.0 30.0 26.6 27.2 27.7 30.5 31.6 30.0 31.7 31.6 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 From: 27.6 27.9 29.5 29.0 29.6 28.0 28.0 28.0 27.7 28.4 29.9 28.5 27.5 25.6 24.6 25.6 22.9 To: 28.0 28.9 29.8 29.5 29.1 27.7 28.1 27.7 29.2 29.8 28.0 27.1 23.1 23.4 24.7 21.6 Day 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 From: 21.9 22.8 25.0 25.7 27.9 30.3 28.8 28.5 27.0 28.7 29.7 28.3 30.5 30.8 To: 20.6 25.7 25.3 26.7 29.5 29.9 28.1 27.1 29.3 29.4 29.2 29.0 30.6 32.2 Number of NCDC observations per day: 8