***Corrected Winter 2010***

LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION

YEAR	1984
MONTH	DECEMBER		.... 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	26.5	32.7	31.5	T	120	 4.8	8	110	24.0	2	682.0
2	31.0	33.9	32.5	0	080	 4.1	12	120	24.0	0	678.7
3	30.1	34.7	33.6	T	350	 8.2	13	340	24.0	4	681.8
4	31.6	34.8	33.0	T	350	10.2	15	350	24.0	8	688.8
5	28.3	34.5	30.2	T	330	 5.8	15	330	23.1	7	694.0
6	27.6	33.3	31.5	T	060	 7.6	13	060	11.9	2	691.4
7	29.4	33.4	30.9	T	030	 8.6	15	020	22.9	5	692.8
8	25.5	31.4	27.4	T	360	13.8	23	360	16.2	8	694.3
9	22.8	28.8	24.2	T	010	12.1	28	360	13.4	8	692.4
10	19.9	26.9	24.2	T	350	 5.8	16	350	19.0	6	697.9
11	21.7	28.9	26.8	T	090	 5.8	12	350	20.6	6	698.1
12	17.2	29.2	24.4	T	180	 2.3	12	090	23.1	2	698.5
13	19.4	29.0	22.7	T	170	 1.8	 7	180	24.0	6	701.2
14	20.5	26.6	24.8	T	060	 6.8	12	070	20.8	3	696.6
15	21.6	26.5	22.8	T	010	 9.2	18	010	20.0	7	694.6
16	17.2	24.2	21.7	T	140	 4.3	17	360	 1.5	7	701.0
17	16.7	24.3	21.2	T	090	 8.1	17	100	10.2	4	702.8
18	19.2	24.4	24.0	T	070	10.4	20	090	22.3	1	698.5
19	19.4	24.8	21.4	0	040	 6.7	15	040	20.8	6	699.6
20	19.1	24.4	23.1	T	360	 9.6	17	340	 3.6	8	701.0
21	20.0	24.7	21.6	T	330	 9.0	18	360	14.6	8	698.6
22	19.7	23.9	21.9	T	340	18.2	24	340	 4.7	8	698.4
23	15.5	23.9	20.2	T	350	11.2	30	350	 4.4	8	696.8
24	15.7	24.4	22.4	T	100	 8.1	16	340	 7.9	7	695.9
25	22.2	26.0	25.3	T	040	 9.5	15	030	24.0	2	692.0
26	23.3	25.5	24.8	T	360	 9.8	22	360	16.8	6	690.7
27	22.6	27.2	25.7	T	340	 9.2	17	340	16.5	7	694.7
28	23.8	27.5	25.5	T	050	 7.2	15	350	17.4	3	695.0
29	23.9	26.3	24.4	T	040	 9.9	14	040	24.0	2	694.6
30	20.6	26.3	23.7	T	340	 6.8	17	360	19.3	7	696.5
31	21.6	25.4	23.6	T	360	 7.6	16	360	 4.1	8	696.0

AVG	22.2	28.0	25.5	T	350	 8.1	30	350	16.9	5	694.7
							23rd
AVG MONTHLY	-25.5		PCPN	TRACE			NR DAYS CLEAR	07
HIGHEST	-14.0	ON 14th		SUNSHINE	523.1/ 70%	PARTLY CLOUDY 	10
LOWEST	-34.8	ON 4th						CLOUDY		14
				HIGH PRESSURE	703.8	ON 17th
				LOW PRESSURE	677.9	ON 3rd

NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD:	+0.30 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

Changed Monthly Averages:  (All temps are Minus C)
	From	To			From	To				From	To
Max T	22.8	22.4	Avg Wnd Spd			Avg Press		694.5	694.7
Min T	27.7	28.0	Max Press			Fastest Wnd MPH
Avg T	25.3	25.5	Min Press

Changes to Daily Data:
Max Temp	Day	4	5	7	8	9	14	15	16	19	21	23	26	29	31
		From:	32.7	29.8	30.4	27.3	23.1	14.0	23.0	18.6	21.3	21.6	20.3	24.1	24.0	22.6
		To:	31.6	28.3	29.4	25.5	22.8	20.5	21.6	17.2	19.4	20.0	15.5	23.3	23.9	21.6

Min Temp	Day	1	2	6	11	14	18	20	22	24	26	27
		From:	31.7	33.0	32.0	28.1	26.2	24.2	23.7	22.4	23.5	25.4	26.9
		To:	32.7	33.9	33.3	28.9	26.6	24.4	24.4	23.9	24.4	25.5	27.2

Avg Temp	Day	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
		From:	29.1	32.0	32.4	33.8	32.2	29.8	31.9	29.4	26.0	23.4	24.9	23.2	24.2	20.1	24.8	21.4
		To:	31.5	32.5	33.6	33.0	30.2	31.5	30.9	27.4	24.2	24.2	26.8	24.4	22.7	24.8	22.8	21.7
		Day	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
		From:	20.5	21.7	23.0	21.4	23.2	21.1	22.1	19.6	24.1	24.8	24.8	25.6	25.1	23.5	24.0
		To:	21.2	24.0	21.4	23.1	21.6	21.9	20.2	22.4	25.3	24.8	25.7	25.5	24.4	23.7	23.6

Number of NCDC observations per day: 8