***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1984 MONTH MAY .... 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 58.4 70.5 69.0 T 110 6.9 14 110 0.0 2 671.6 2 59.4 70.4 65.1 T 040 4.8 10 110 0.0 2 677.2 3 52.2 68.5 54.1 T 020 8.9 12 010 0.0 8 676.2 4 52.0 64.4 58.5 T 030 10.5 20 030 0.0 4 673.5 5 56.6 64.3 61.5 T 080 5.2 18 020 0.0 0 676.5 6 53.7 65.4 59.3 T 050 9.5 22 040 0.0 0 674.9 7 52.7 61.2 58.7 T 040 14.5 24 040 0.0 0 682.3 8 37.2 59.0 45.1 0 010 21.3 30 030 0.0 0 679.4 9 37.0 49.9 46.1 0 360 17.8 39 010 0.0 2 684.6 10 40.5 48.3 43.1 0 350 15.7 29 060 0.0 8 690.6 11 40.8 49.7 47.9 T 040 12.2 23 340 0.0 8 692.8 12 46.4 57.7 51.4 T 030 11.7 24 030 0.0 0 693.7 13 48.7 65.5 62.5 0 100 7.5 17 040 0.0 0 694.9 14 52.7 67.2 60.8 0 360 12.1 21 090 0.0 4 696.5 15 41.1 62.7 46.5 T 320 7.2 30 060 0.0 6 702.9 16 40.9 56.1 50.6 T 100 10.9 22 090 0.0 0 699.6 17 43.2 56.6 51.4 T 080 16.7 32 080 0.0 0 684.5 18 48.8 61.6 59.6 T 070 8.6 25 090 0.0 0 684.3 19 56.7 63.3 61.6 T 080 6.6 15 040 0.0 2 686.2 20 54.4 63.2 57.2 T 040 10.3 15 060 0.0 5 679.6 21 54.0 63.8 59.1 T 040 8.9 20 040 0.0 2 684.5 22 56.7 64.9 64.3 T 070 6.1 18 010 0.0 1 689.2 23 63.4 67.7 65.9 T 050 6.6 12 090 0.0 0 688.6 24 56.1 67.8 58.6 T 020 13.3 24 020 0.0 6 683.0 25 53.3 59.6 55.1 T 030 13.6 20 020 0.0 8 679.1 26 53.1 58.8 57.0 T 040 13.5 21 030 0.0 2 675.2 27 56.6 59.1 57.5 T 040 16.4 24 040 0.0 0 676.5 28 50.5 57.6 53.2 0 020 15.8 28 020 0.0 2 682.7 29 47.2 57.2 50.4 T 020 17.0 27 030 0.0 4 686.7 30 49.2 62.7 60.6 T 070 11.2 24 030 0.0 0 681.6 31 59.9 64.9 63.3 T 060 6.8 16 050 0.0 0 679.3 AVG 50.8 61.6 56.6 T 040 11.2 39 010 0.0 2 684.1 9th AVG MONTHLY -56.6 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 21 HIGHEST -37.0 ON 9th SUNSHINE 0.0/ 0% PARTLY CLOUDY 06 LOWEST -70.5 ON 1st CLOUDY 04 HIGH PRESSURE 705.3 ON 16th LOW PRESSURE 670.5 ON 1st NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: +2.60 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 -70.4 -70.5 Changed Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 51.9 50.8 Avg Wnd Spd 11.4 11.2 Avg Press Min T 60.3 61.6 Max Press Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 56.1 56.6 Min Press 670.8 670.5 Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 2 3 8 10 14 15 20 24 25 27 28 29 From: 64.7 52.3 46.5 44.4 61.4 42.4 56.5 56.9 54.3 57.4 52.3 47.4 To: 59.4 52.2 37.2 40.5 52.7 41.1 54.4 56.1 53.3 56.6 50.5 47.2 Min Temp Day 1 4 12 13 14 17 18 19 21 23 26 29 30 31 From: 65.7 58.3 49.8 63.5 67.1 53.0 59.9 62.8 59.6 66.4 57.4 53.0 62.4 63.5 To: 70.5 64.4 57.7 65.5 67.2 56.6 61.6 63.3 63.8 67.7 58.8 57.2 62.7 64.9 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 62.0 67.6 60.4 55.2 60.5 59.6 57.0 52.8 43.5 46.4 45.3 48.1 56.1 64.3 52.6 48.5 To: 69.0 65.1 54.1 58.5 61.5 59.3 58.7 45.1 46.1 43.1 47.9 51.4 62.5 60.8 46.5 50.6 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 From: 48.1 54.4 59.8 59.9 56.8 60.8 64.9 62.4 57.0 55.3 58.3 55.0 50.2 55.8 61.7 To: 51.4 59.6 61.6 57.2 59.1 64.3 65.9 58.6 55.1 57.0 57.5 53.2 50.4 60.6 63.3 Number of NCDC observations per day: 8