***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1984 MONTH FEBRUARY .... 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 30.5 33.9 32.2 T 360 8.1 17 360 23.4 6 698.0 2 22.8 33.9 27.5 T 340 11.2 22 330 6.2 8 700.1 3 20.8 32.7 26.8 T 090 6.2 18 290 0.0 6 699.0 4 24.4 36.1 34.8 T 100 10.5 15 110 20.1 0 697.5 5 34.4 37.7 36.8 0 080 12.0 20 090 24.0 0 696.0 6 24.9 37.6 35.6 T 030 12.0 18 040 24.0 3 693.8 7 34.9 41.6 39.7 T 060 7.0 17 040 20.2 6 695.1 8 38.1 43.3 41.9 T 060 7.8 13 020 22.1 6 692.2 9 35.5 44.3 39.6 T 020 7.6 14 010 20.5 6 688.3 10 35.0 45.3 43.8 T 110 6.4 14 020 16.2 3 685.0 11 39.0 43.8 42.4 T 080 9.0 14 070 21.3 7 681.1 12 39.7 45.5 44.0 T 060 8.5 13 040 22.7 6 678.2 13 38.9 46.5 42.2 T 040 8.5 16 040 22.2 8 678.9 14 39.4 46.7 40.9 T 010 11.2 16 020 22.2 8 681.9 15 37.5 42.5 38.4 T 010 15.0 21 010 16.9 8 681.5 16 37.9 43.3 42.0 T 030 12.2 23 010 14.9 8 678.4 17 41.1 49.8 46.4 T 360 9.9 21 010 20.6 6 679.1 18 44.4 47.8 45.9 T 360 9.6 17 360 19.2 8 681.6 19 42.7 45.5 44.3 T 010 13.3 17 010 6.7 8 680.2 20 42.5 50.5 47.8 T 010 9.5 22 010 16.8 8 679.5 21 42.7 48.6 45.1 T 350 11.9 16 360 13.6 6 680.3 22 42.1 46.7 46.0 T 360 11.9 17 350 3.3 8 682.9 23 44.7 47.5 45.7 T 360 14.1 17 360 11.7 8 688.4 24 39.4 46.6 42.0 T 360 19.6 23 360 8.7 8 690.7 25 39.6 42.7 41.4 T 360 20.6 32 350 0.0 8 686.8 26 38.7 43.5 39.6 0 350 20.7 30 350 1.4 8 681.6 27 39.0 45.5 43.8 T 020 16.7 30 350 0.0 8 674.6 28 46.6 56.1 51.3 T 070 8.4 23 020 0.0 6 669.7 29 51.3 59.4 58.2 T 120 6.2 12 150 20.0 2 669.4 AVG 37.5 44.3 41.6 T 360 11.2 32 350 14.4 6 685.2 25th AVG MONTHLY -41.6 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 03 HIGHEST -20.8 ON 3rd SUNSHINE 418.9/ 60% PARTLY CLOUDY 11 LOWEST -59.4 ON 29th CLOUDY 15 HIGH PRESSURE 700.4 ON 3rd LOW PRESSURE 669.2 ON 28th,29th NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: +1.30 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 -58.7 -59.4 Changed Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 38.1 37.5 Avg Wnd Spd 11.5 11.2 Avg Press 685.7 685.2 Min T 43.6 44.3 Max Press Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 40.8 41.6 Min Press 669.4 669.2 Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 1 2 9 14 18 19 21 24 28 From: 31.3 28.0 36.6 39.5 45.2 44.0 45.5 42.1 47.8 To: 30.5 22.8 35.5 39.4 44.4 42.7 42.7 39.4 46.6 Min Temp Day 1 3 4 5 7 8 12 16 19 20 25 27 28 29 From: 33.5 28.9 34.5 36.5 41.3 42.9 44.9 41.9 41.3 50.3 42.4 44.7 50.7 58.7 To: 33.9 32.7 36.1 37.7 41.6 43.3 45.5 43.3 45.5 50.5 42.7 45.5 56.1 59.4 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 32.4 31.0 24.9 29.5 35.5 31.3 38.1 40.5 40.5 40.2 41.4 42.3 42.7 43.1 40.0 39.9 To: 32.2 27.5 26.8 34.8 36.8 35.6 39.7 41.9 39.6 43.8 42.4 44.0 42.2 40.9 38.4 42.0 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 From: 45.5 46.5 42.7 46.4 47.0 44.4 46.1 44.3 41.0 41.1 41.9 49.3 55.0 To: 46.4 45.9 44.3 47.8 45.1 46.0 45.7 42.0 41.4 39.6 43.8 51.3 58.2 Number of NCDC observations per day: 8