***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1984 MONTH SEPTEMBER .... 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 53.3 58.8 54.1 T 040 15.9 22 060 0.0 3 670.3 2 52.8 57.7 56.3 0 020 16.4 29 040 0.0 6 671.4 3 56.2 61.6 60.2 0 020 12.4 24 020 0.0 5 674.7 4 60.4 66.6 64.6 T 060 6.1 20 020 0.0 2 675.1 5 60.5 66.7 62.5 T 060 4.7 9 050 0.0 7 682.6 6 60.4 67.7 65.2 0 100 7.1 12 100 0.0 0 682.5 7 63.3 67.7 64.4 0 060 9.7 15 090 0.0 2 677.8 8 47.2 66.4 56.5 0 360 17.8 25 360 0.0 6 684.4 9 37.7 58.6 40.3 0 320 20.3 38 350 0.0 8 691.4 10 35.5 39.8 36.6 0 350 20.4 35 320 0.0 8 697.0 11 35.9 47.2 44.5 0 360 18.9 37 350 0.0 6 692.3 12 43.0 48.3 47.0 0 020 25.7 35 010 0.0 6 674.1 13 45.3 51.6 48.5 0 010 20.0 40 010 0.0 8 673.5 14 47.1 56.6 55.7 0 030 13.8 30 010 0.0 6 682.3 15 50.5 56.9 52.4 T 020 12.4 21 030 0.0 8 684.9 16 49.3 53.3 51.6 0 040 13.0 20 030 0.0 6 679.6 17 52.7 63.3 57.6 0 040 10.6 21 040 0.0 0 671.7 18 55.6 69.4 67.0 0 070 5.5 18 050 0.0 1 670.2 19 58.3 72.7 68.3 0 260 1.8 10 070 0.0 5 675.2 20 46.2 72.7 50.3 0 300 5.4 15 060 0.0 8 677.6 21 45.7 62.7 57.2 0 250 3.2 14 270 0.0 8 672.5 22 57.4 64.4 63.3 0 140 3.7 7 130 0.0 8 666.7 23 62.8 71.6 69.3 0 120 2.5 7 070 0.0 2 667.4 24 70.0 73.3 71.9 0 070 4.7 8 120 24.0 0 668.4 25 61.6 73.7 68.2 0 020 14.1 23 040 24.0 6 671.6 26 49.4 70.8 54.4 0 360 22.2 32 360 0.0 8 674.1 27 46.0 54.7 47.3 0 350 19.6 31 350 0.0 8 675.6 28 46.1 58.3 54.5 0 360 17.5 27 340 0.0 8 669.1 29 54.5 60.3 58.6 0 020 13.8 27 360 5.0 2 666.7 30 56.7 64.9 61.5 0 030 7.0 22 030 22.0 2 668.8 AVG 52.0 61.9 57.0 T 020 12.2 40 010 7.3 5 676.3 13th AVG MONTHLY -57.0 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 09 HIGHEST -35.5 ON 10th SUNSHINE 75.0/ 30% PARTLY CLOUDY 10 LOWEST -73.7 ON 25th CLOUDY 11 HIGH PRESSURE 698.2 ON 11th LOW PRESSURE 665.7 ON 23rd NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: +1.40 inches Sunrise occurred at 1723UTC on day 20. Sunrise 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 -35.6 -35.5 Min T Changed Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 53.4 52.0 Avg Wnd Spd 12.4 12.2 Avg Press 677.2 676.3 Min T 60.9 61.9 Max Press Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 57.1 57.0 Min Press Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 1 5 7 8 9 10 15 19 25 26 From: 53.6 62.1 63.6 58.8 39.6 35.6 52.2 66.6 70.8 54.7 To: 53.3 60.5 63.3 47.2 37.7 35.5 50.5 58.3 61.6 49.4 Min Temp Day 2 3 4 6 11 13 14 16 17 18 19 21 23 24 28 30 From: 57.6 61.3 64.9 65.4 44.3 49.3 56.1 52.2 62.6 66.8 71.6 57.7 70.0 71.7 54.6 60.3 To: 57.7 61.6 66.6 67.7 47.2 51.6 56.6 53.3 63.3 69.4 72.7 62.7 71.6 73.3 58.3 64.9 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 56.2 55.2 58.8 62.7 64.4 62.9 65.7 62.6 49.1 37.7 40.1 45.7 47.3 51.6 54.6 50.8 To: 54.1 56.3 60.2 64.6 62.5 65.2 64.4 56.5 40.3 36.6 44.5 47.0 48.5 55.7 52.4 51.6 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 From: 57.7 61.2 69.1 59.5 51.7 60.9 66.4 70.8 72.3 62.8 50.4 50.3 57.4 58.5 To: 57.6 67.0 68.3 50.3 57.2 63.3 69.3 71.9 68.2 54.4 47.3 54.5 58.6 61.5 Number of NCDC observations per day: 8