***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1984 MONTH JULY .... 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 65.6 68.6 67.3 T 080 6.7 12 080 M 0 692.2 2 61.1 68.3 63.4 T 100 13.4 21 090 M 0 681.6 3 62.4 64.6 63.8 T 080 13.3 25 090 M 0 674.1 4 60.7 66.6 63.4 T 050 10.2 32 050 M 0 678.4 5 48.8 67.8 53.4 T 360 12.5 23 360 M 6 685.0 6 47.3 59.4 52.6 T 350 5.9 24 320 M 6 691.7 7 48.5 62.2 56.6 T 060 5.2 10 350 M 5 688.5 8 53.1 66.2 63.9 T 060 8.3 15 030 M 0 678.3 9 59.2 63.8 62.4 T 030 14.7 23 030 M 0 667.1 10 57.7 64.9 60.4 0 030 13.7 23 020 M 7 669.9 11 58.0 61.0 58.6 0 020 16.8 24 020 M 8 672.4 12 57.0 59.1 57.8 0 010 17.4 28 020 M 8 672.1 13 45.5 58.8 50.5 0 010 26.0 38 010 M 8 670.9 14 42.2 51.6 45.1 0 020 27.3 48 020 M 7 669.5 15 42.0 57.2 56.2 0 010 15.0 45 010 M 4 670.7 16 49.4 57.3 51.0 0 350 15.7 23 350 M 8 675.2 17 49.3 50.7 49.8 0 010 19.4 31 010 M 8 674.7 18 49.6 53.3 51.6 0 010 24.9 35 010 M 8 671.3 19 46.1 54.1 51.1 0 360 23.3 37 360 M 8 669.9 20 44.3 52.7 45.4 0 360 20.9 36 360 M 8 677.3 21 43.0 49.4 46.3 0 350 17.8 32 360 M 6 680.9 22 40.5 50.0 45.1 0 360 27.9 37 360 M 8 679.8 23 40.2 47.5 43.3 0 360 31.3 51 360 M 8 675.4 24 41.5 52.7 49.8 0 010 24.3 44 010 M 7 670.0 25 49.5 58.3 54.9 0 020 14.1 33 360 M 2 670.0 26 53.8 59.4 56.3 T 010 16.5 25 010 M 0 669.2 27 52.6 55.9 53.7 0 020 16.5 27 010 M 0 667.3 28 52.0 55.5 53.8 0 010 16.0 25 360 M 2 667.9 29 52.4 56.6 54.8 0 010 16.5 25 010 M 3 673.5 30 52.4 56.6 54.9 0 010 16.8 28 010 M 0 676.7 31 47.2 56.9 50.2 0 010 9.5 27 010 M 6 679.5 AVG 50.7 58.3 54.4 T 010 16.7 51 360 M 5 675.5 23rd AVG MONTHLY -54.4 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 11 HIGHEST -40.2 ON 23rd SUNSHINE M PARTLY CLOUDY 07 LOWEST -68.6 ON 1st CLOUDY 13 HIGH PRESSURE 696.5 ON 1st LOW PRESSURE 665.1 ON 28th 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 Min T Changed Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 51.6 50.7 Avg Wnd Spd 16.7 Avg Press 676.3 675.5 Min T 57.4 58.3 Max Press Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 54.5 54.4 Min Press Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 1 5 10 13 16 19 22 26 31 From: 66.3 53.3 60.9 50.7 50.3 51.5 43.9 54.3 50.7 To: 65.6 48.8 57.7 45.5 49.4 46.1 40.5 53.8 47.2 Min Temp Day 4 6 7 9 14 15 18 21 24 25 28 29 30 From: 64.5 53.3 60.1 62.0 50.7 56.2 51.6 46.1 49.5 54.5 54.3 56.4 55.0 To: 66.6 59.4 62.2 63.8 51.6 57.2 53.3 49.4 52.7 58.3 55.5 56.6 56.6 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 67.5 64.7 63.5 62.6 60.6 50.3 54.3 59.6 60.6 62.9 59.5 58.0 54.8 46.5 49.1 53.8 To: 67.3 63.4 63.8 63.4 53.4 52.6 56.6 63.9 62.4 60.4 58.6 57.8 50.5 45.1 56.2 51.0 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 From: 50.0 50.6 52.8 48.5 44.5 47.0 43.9 45.5 52.0 56.9 54.3 53.2 54.4 53.7 53.8 To: 49.8 51.6 51.1 45.4 46.3 45.1 43.3 49.8 54.9 56.3 53.7 53.8 54.8 54.9 50.2 Number of NCDC observations per day: 8