***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1984 MONTH OCTOBER .... 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 60.3 67.2 65.7 T 060 6.4 14 050 0.0 1 667.6 2 62.7 67.0 63.9 T 020 10.0 15 030 3.2 2 666.0 3 55.5 64.2 60.5 0 020 11.3 18 020 1.1 7 672.7 4 53.3 62.8 54.4 0 020 7.9 17 010 0.0 6 674.5 5 53.7 61.0 58.8 0 080 5.1 16 020 8.7 4 671.7 6 57.2 62.2 59.8 T 080 5.1 10 080 23.5 1 666.0 7 57.2 62.7 59.9 T 020 5.0 12 050 23.8 4 669.0 8 54.9 63.0 55.8 0 010 10.3 17 020 4.6 8 673.6 9 49.9 58.8 54.1 0 010 5.1 20 360 9.6 7 672.8 10 47.7 55.1 50.6 T 030 2.9 13 010 1.1 7 674.8 11 46.6 53.3 47.9 T 350 4.6 12 360 0.3 7 674.2 12 46.9 54.4 52.0 T 030 10.4 17 030 14.0 5 673.4 13 40.5 54.7 43.0 0 320 12.4 25 330 0.0 8 673.2 14 40.0 50.5 48.7 T 070 5.4 17 320 0.0 8 673.3 15 48.9 53.8 51.3 T 100 4.0 9 040 8.9 6 671.4 16 49.7 56.1 53.8 T 100 4.8 9 100 24.0 2 667.3 17 49.4 57.2 54.5 T 080 2.4 8 060 24.0 2 666.1 18 53.1 57.3 55.5 T 080 5.8 9 050 23.5 1 666.4 19 51.7 58.0 54.4 T 100 3.4 10 090 24.0 0 669.3 20 50.5 56.4 53.6 T 350 3.0 7 010 20.0 7 676.9 21 43.8 53.7 46.3 T 040 2.0 9 350 0.0 8 681.0 22 36.1 47.3 38.2 T 180 2.4 8 350 0.0 8 682.8 23 35.7 46.6 44.1 T 120 7.5 12 190 14.8 2 682.3 24 43.9 51.1 48.3 T 120 6.9 18 120 M 2 679.0 25 40.5 50.9 45.5 T 080 0.7 10 090 23.9 7 677.8 26 40.4 51.1 44.9 T 160 3.8 7 170 16.1 5 677.8 27 41.7 52.7 51.3 T 120 6.3 13 120 23.9 4 679.2 28 47.2 53.1 49.2 T 010 6.8 13 120 13.7 8 678.6 29 46.6 49.7 48.2 T 360 10.2 16 360 15.7 8 678.5 30 44.4 50.3 45.9 T 360 15.5 24 360 5.5 8 677.7 31 42.7 47.3 45.4 T 020 7.3 24 360 19.4 8 677.7 AVG 48.2 55.8 51.8 T 020 6.3 25 330 11.6 5 674.0 13th AVG MONTHLY -51.8 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 09 HIGHEST -35.7 ON 23rd SUNSHINE 347.3 46.7 PARTLY CLOUDY 07 LOWEST -67.2 ON 1st CLOUDY 15 HIGH PRESSURE 683.7 ON 23rd LOW PRESSURE 664.3 ON 1st NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: +1.10 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 -67.0 -67.2 Changed Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 49.2 48.2 Avg Wnd Spd Avg Press 673.9 674.0 Min T 55.2 55.8 Max Press Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 52.2 51.8 Min Press Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 2 3 4 7 8 9 10 13 17 20 21 22 25 28 29 31 From: 62.8 62.8 53.7 57.8 55.8 53.9 48.5 42.0 49.5 52.2 46.9 38.5 44.1 50.7 47.3 45.9 To: 62.7 55.5 53.3 57.2 54.9 49.9 47.7 40.5 49.4 50.5 43.8 36.1 40.5 47.2 46.6 42.7 Min Temp Day 1 5 6 7 9 12 14 15 16 17 23 24 26 27 From: 66.0 58.5 61.1 62.3 58.7 53.6 48.9 51.9 54.7 56.8 46.0 49.1 48.0 52.0 To: 67.2 61.0 62.2 62.7 58.8 54.4 50.5 53.8 56.1 57.2 46.6 51.1 51.1 52.7 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 From: 63.2 64.9 63.5 58.3 56.1 59.2 60.0 59.4 56.3 51.8 50.0 50.3 48.4 44.5 50.4 52.2 To: 65.7 63.9 60.5 54.4 58.8 59.8 59.9 55.8 54.1 50.6 47.9 52.0 43.0 48.7 51.3 53.8 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 From: 53.2 55.2 54.9 54.3 50.3 42.9 40.9 46.5 47.5 44.2 46.9 51.9 48.5 47.4 46.6 To: 54.5 55.5 54.4 53.6 46.3 38.2 44.1 48.3 45.5 44.9 51.3 49.2 48.2 45.9 45.4 Number of NCDC observations per day: 8