***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1984 MONTH AUGUST .... 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 46.1 58.3 49.9 T 360 2.2 14 010 0.0 4 678.0 2 47.3 62.7 60.8 0 140 4.3 13 110 0.0 0 677.4 3 60.3 64.9 64.1 T 120 3.7 12 140 0.0 4 679.1 4 56.3 65.4 58.2 T 020 7.9 13 030 0.0 8 676.7 5 56.8 67.2 63.1 T 010 13.1 25 010 0.0 2 675.2 6 63.1 71.6 68.4 T 040 9.3 25 360 0.0 3 673.2 7 55.5 72.0 59.0 T 350 11.8 23 360 0.0 8 668.5 8 55.8 63.3 61.7 T 040 5.5 17 340 0.0 6 671.5 9 60.4 66.6 63.2 T 060 3.0 15 020 0.0 2 670.1 10 61.3 71.6 68.8 T 010 4.0 11 080 0.0 6 662.7 11 58.8 71.9 59.9 T 360 15.8 36 360 0.0 8 669.4 12 51.1 60.1 55.2 T 360 22.9 35 360 0.0 8 672.2 13 49.9 55.5 50.6 0 010 21.0 32 360 0.0 8 679.0 14 49.9 61.6 57.9 0 040 16.5 33 010 0.0 1 682.9 15 58.3 69.4 66.1 T 060 9.4 28 040 0.0 0 680.9 16 65.8 71.0 69.8 0 100 5.2 15 050 0.0 0 678.0 17 61.6 72.6 67.7 0 010 11.2 21 080 0.0 4 677.3 18 51.6 72.0 55.1 T 010 20.7 30 010 0.0 8 683.5 19 49.3 56.6 51.9 0 010 18.0 33 010 0.0 4 690.3 20 50.0 62.2 58.7 0 100 8.8 33 010 0.0 0 681.1 21 56.4 66.0 62.9 T 060 8.4 17 060 0.0 4 665.1 22 54.9 66.1 56.3 T 360 16.1 24 350 0.0 6 681.1 23 54.7 62.7 58.6 T 030 11.9 28 360 0.0 2 687.9 24 57.1 68.3 66.2 T 050 8.3 18 050 0.0 0 684.4 25 51.1 68.6 56.1 0 010 17.7 30 020 0.0 8 685.6 26 50.6 59.9 54.2 0 030 12.4 31 020 0.0 4 688.7 27 52.7 63.8 62.7 T 080 8.2 23 030 0.0 0 684.8 28 59.4 64.9 60.9 T 040 10.6 20 040 0.0 4 686.9 29 49.9 63.0 53.2 T 030 14.8 22 030 0.0 4 682.7 30 50.6 59.9 57.4 T 060 7.0 25 360 0.0 4 683.4 31 52.9 60.9 58.3 T 090 11.9 16 110 0.0 0 679.8 AVG 54.8 65.2 59.9 T 010 11.0 36 360 0.0 4 678.6 11th AVG MONTHLY -59.9 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 11 HIGHEST -46.1 ON 1st SUNSHINE 0.0/ 0% PARTLY CLOUDY 13 LOWEST -72.6 ON 17th CLOUDY 07 HIGH PRESSURE 691.8 ON 20th LOW PRESSURE 661.2 ON 11th NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: +1.70 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 -46.7 -46.1 Min T Changed Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 55.7 54.8 Avg Wnd Spd 11.1 11.0 Avg Press 678.7 678.6 Min T 63.5 65.2 Max Press Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 59.6 59.9 Min Press Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 1 7 11 12 13 17 18 22 25 28 29 From: 46.7 57.5 59.0 55.7 50.7 68.9 55.1 55.8 54.2 59.7 54.3 To: 46.1 55.5 58.8 51.1 49.9 61.6 51.6 54.9 51.1 59.4 49.9 Min Temp Day 1 2 3 5 6 8 9 10 14 15 16 19 20 21 23 24 From: 50.6 61.2 64.2 63.1 68.0 61.8 63.7 71.3 58.2 66.5 70.2 55.1 57.9 64.5 57.3 66.2 To: 58.3 62.7 64.9 67.2 71.6 63.3 66.6 71.6 61.6 69.4 71.0 56.6 62.2 66.0 62.7 68.3 Day 26 27 30 From: 54.0 63.1 58.2 To: 59.9 63.8 59.9 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 48.7 54.3 62.3 60.9 60.0 65.6 64.8 58.8 62.1 66.3 65.5 57.9 53.1 54.1 62.4 68.0 To: 49.9 60.8 64.1 58.2 63.1 68.4 59.0 61.7 63.2 68.8 59.9 55.2 50.6 57.9 66.1 69.8 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 From: 70.8 63.5 52.2 54.0 60.5 61.0 56.0 61.6 61.4 52.3 57.9 62.3 58.7 54.4 56.9 To: 67.7 55.1 51.9 58.7 62.9 56.3 58.6 66.2 56.1 54.2 62.7 60.9 53.2 57.4 58.3 Number of NCDC observations per day: 8