***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1984 MONTH NOVEMBER .... 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 42.2 46.6 44.5 T 070 3.4 10 020 24.0 7 674.0 2 42.7 48.3 45.2 T 120 4.6 9 110 24.0 2 674.5 3 41.9 50.5 47.6 0 360 10.0 17 020 24.0 5 671.9 4 38.3 51.0 41.3 T 320 12.9 24 340 5.8 8 676.4 5 37.3 42.3 39.5 T 350 12.4 27 320 6.6 7 680.1 6 38.1 40.0 39.3 T 010 11.7 20 350 11.4 7 678.6 7 38.3 41.1 39.7 T 030 12.1 20 020 24.0 2 679.8 8 38.6 40.5 39.7 T 020 14.0 21 020 24.0 1 683.3 9 36.6 41.0 38.6 T 010 8.1 18 010 24.0 2 687.3 10 36.6 40.8 38.7 T 040 9.3 16 020 24.0 2 685.8 11 36.1 40.8 37.4 T 020 10.7 22 010 22.5 6 684.2 12 36.1 39.4 37.2 T 030 10.5 21 010 21.3 6 682.8 13 36.1 40.1 37.9 T 010 12.5 17 010 18.1 8 682.2 14 34.4 38.5 35.8 T 010 15.1 23 360 22.2 8 679.3 15 32.2 37.7 33.8 T 020 14.3 24 010 20.1 8 677.7 16 28.3 33.4 30.2 T 360 11.4 24 010 14.5 7 679.2 17 28.0 34.4 32.6 T 020 14.0 21 010 17.0 2 683.9 18 30.0 34.0 32.0 0 030 11.6 22 030 24.0 0 685.2 19 28.3 33.2 30.3 0 060 7.3 17 030 24.0 2 686.1 20 27.9 31.9 30.2 0 060 5.6 15 060 24.0 1 688.4 21 28.9 33.3 30.6 0 050 4.9 8 040 24.0 0 688.0 22 28.6 33.9 30.3 0 080 10.0 14 110 24.0 2 680.1 23 28.7 36.2 30.0 T 060 7.1 20 070 24.0 0 675.4 24 28.3 31.3 29.4 T 030 6.2 10 050 24.0 1 684.1 25 28.4 31.6 30.2 0 080 6.6 10 060 24.0 0 690.4 26 28.5 32.2 30.5 0 080 8.2 17 090 24.0 0 686.1 27 26.0 32.5 28.3 T 030 5.0 14 080 24.0 1 686.4 28 27.9 30.9 29.1 T 020 7.2 13 020 24.0 2 685.2 29 24.4 31.2 27.9 0 080 4.6 10 080 24.0 1 680.3 30 24.5 36.0 29.2 T 120 1.5 7 080 24.0 7 682.2 AVG 32.7 37.8 34.9 T 030 9.1 27 320 21.3 4 682.0 5th AVG MONTHLY -34.9 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 18 HIGHEST -24.4 ON 29th SUNSHINE 639.5/ 89% PARTLY CLOUDY 03 LOWEST -51.0 ON 4th CLOUDY 09 HIGH PRESSURE 691.2 ON 26th LOW PRESSURE 671.1 ON 4th NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: +0.60 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 -24.5 -24.4 Min T Changed Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 33.3 32.7 Avg Wnd Spd 8.9 9.1 Avg Press 681.8 682.0 Min T 37.6 37.8 Max Press 691.1 691.2 Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 35.4 34.9 Min Press Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 2 4 7 9 11 13 14 15 16 18 19 21 24 29 From: 43.5 42.0 38.7 36.9 37.1 36.5 34.7 33.2 29.3 31.9 28.8 29.0 28.6 28.2 To: 42.7 38.3 38.3 36.6 36.1 36.1 34.4 32.2 28.3 30.0 28.3 28.9 28.3 24.4 Min Temp Day 1 2 3 6 7 8 12 17 21 25 From: 46.4 47.7 49.1 39.9 41.0 40.2 37.7 34.2 32.2 30.5 To: 46.6 48.3 50.5 40.0 41.1 40.5 39.4 34.4 33.3 31.6 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 44.3 45.6 45.5 46.5 39.8 39.0 39.9 39.4 39.0 38.7 39.0 36.9 38.3 36.6 35.5 31.4 To: 44.5 45.2 47.6 41.3 39.5 39.3 39.7 39.7 38.6 38.7 37.4 37.2 37.9 35.8 33.8 30.2 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 From: 31.1 33.0 31.0 29.9 30.6 31.3 32.5 30.0 29.5 30.4 29.3 29.4 29.7 30.3 To: 32.6 32.0 30.3 30.2 30.6 30.3 30.0 29.4 30.2 30.5 28.3 29.1 27.9 29.2 Number of NCDC observations per day: 8