***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1984 MONTH MARCH .... 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 57.3 62.2 61.2 T 060 3.1 9 120 16.3 3 668.6 2 44.4 62.7 55.1 T 340 8.9 15 360 21.7 8 676.1 3 39.4 58.9 40.5 T 310 11.1 22 320 0.3 6 682.5 4 39.3 46.1 42.2 T 330 9.5 18 310 0.0 8 684.7 5 33.3 46.2 35.5 T 280 9.9 21 320 0.1 8 685.4 6 33.8 48.8 43.0 T 230 3.2 15 270 5.3 8 687.5 7 36.6 49.7 41.1 T 150 5.5 9 180 6.3 8 684.7 8 36.1 55.5 53.1 T 120 11.2 16 120 10.6 0 681.0 9 53.8 59.9 57.6 0 100 11.7 25 100 6.1 0 669.4 10 57.8 64.5 62.7 T 090 4.8 13 090 2.6 0 676.8 11 58.3 64.5 59.8 T 070 7.1 10 060 16.3 0 685.0 12 35.5 61.4 44.7 T 320 13.3 20 340 13.3 8 690.7 13 30.5 44.1 32.6 T 310 13.8 27 320 0.0 8 696.3 14 29.9 41.1 35.6 T 050 10.8 22 350 0.0 8 696.4 15 32.3 48.3 45.0 T 050 6.5 22 020 0.7 2 689.9 16 44.4 50.5 48.8 0 080 4.6 9 100 0.0 4 678.4 17 46.4 54.1 49.7 T 020 7.3 16 010 0.5 8 674.9 18 47.4 57.2 54.7 T 070 5.2 14 350 0.0 8 678.0 19 49.4 57.8 52.1 T 010 14.0 20 020 0.0 8 673.4 20 47.7 57.7 51.9 0 010 8.9 25 360 0.0 6 674.5 21 48.2 61.0 59.6 0 090 5.1 14 020 0.0 1 676.1 22 58.2 62.7 61.8 0 080 6.9 10 060 0.0 0 678.5 23 59.9 63.8 61.4 0 090 6.6 10 110 0.0 0 678.2 24 56.1 62.7 58.8 0 080 6.2 13 090 0.0 2 677.2 25 55.1 62.2 60.1 0 070 6.9 12 060 0.0 1 682.1 26 58.9 63.5 61.0 0 060 6.7 12 050 0.0 4 686.1 27 57.8 63.0 60.7 0 070 6.5 13 040 0.0 6 685.8 28 55.3 62.8 59.9 T 100 5.1 9 090 0.0 1 674.4 29 57.4 64.0 61.9 0 100 6.7 10 080 0.0 4 667.6 30 52.6 63.4 55.8 T 020 12.2 25 020 0.0 2 672.7 31 53.8 65.5 62.9 0 070 8.2 20 030 0.0 2 675.8 AVG 47.3 57.6 52.6 T 070 8.0 27 320 4.6 4 680.3 13th AVG MONTHLY -52.6 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 13 HIGHEST -29.9 ON 14th SUNSHINE 100.1/ 19% PARTLY CLOUDY 07 LOWEST -65.5 ON 31st CLOUDY 11 HIGH PRESSURE 698.6 ON 14th LOW PRESSURE 666.7 ON 10th NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: +1.90 inches Sunset occurred at 1258UTC on day 22. Sunset based on US Naval Observatory time. 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 -64.6 -65.5 Changed Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 48.4 47.3 Avg Wnd Spd 8.1 8.0 Avg Press Min T 56.8 57.6 Max Press Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 52.6 52.6 Min Press Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 2 3 5 7 11 12 13 19 23 24 From: 58.9 39.7 35.0 38.1 59.0 44.8 31.5 50.3 60.8 58.8 To: 44.4 39.4 33.3 36.6 58.3 35.5 30.5 49.4 59.9 56.1 Min Temp Day 1 4 6 8 9 14 15 18 20 21 22 25 31 From: 62.1 42.7 43.4 54.5 57.8 36.6 48.2 56.9 53.8 59.8 61.8 61.1 64.6 To: 62.2 46.1 48.8 55.5 59.9 41.1 48.3 57.2 57.7 61.0 62.7 62.2 65.5 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 59.7 60.8 49.3 41.0 40.6 38.6 43.9 45.3 55.8 61.2 61.8 53.1 37.8 33.3 40.3 47.5 To: 61.2 55.1 40.5 42.2 35.5 43.0 41.1 53.1 57.6 62.7 59.8 44.7 32.6 35.6 45.0 48.8 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 From: 50.3 52.2 54.0 50.8 54.0 60.0 62.3 60.8 58.1 61.2 60.4 59.0 60.7 58.0 59.2 To: 49.7 54.7 52.1 51.9 59.6 61.8 61.4 58.8 60.1 61.0 60.7 59.9 61.9 55.8 62.9 Number of NCDC observations per day: 8