***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1985 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 70.3 72.1 71.2 T 080 5.7 12 080 0.0 4 668.8 2 66.1 70.7 68.6 T 040 7.5 13 040 0.0 2 670.5 3 64.0 69.9 68.4 T 040 6.8 12 030 0.0 2 670.5 4 58.7 65.2 62.4 T 020 11.0 20 360 0.0 3 677.5 5 59.3 63.9 61.0 T 010 10.1 14 010 0.0 2 683.1 6 56.5 62.3 58.9 T 030 15.1 25 010 0.0 5 678.4 7 49.5 57.0 52.3 0 360 24.8 36 350 0.0 8 680.8 8 48.6 56.3 51.7 0 360 17.6 23 360 0.0 6 687.6 9 52.8 54.5 53.4 0 010 19.7 32 030 0.0 6 684.3 10 51.7 55.9 54.5 0 020 15.7 25 010 0.0 6 676.0 11 55.0 57.0 56.0 0 010 14.0 23 360 0.0 4 675.7 12 55.6 62.7 57.8 T 010 9.7 15 010 0.0 6 673.6 13 55.9 61.1 59.0 T 030 14.0 23 020 0.0 8 664.1 14 56.8 60.3 58.4 0 010 15.8 24 010 0.0 6 670.2 15 57.0 67.5 62.5 T 040 7.3 15 010 0.0 2 671.1 16 66.6 69.8 68.0 T 080 4.3 12 070 0.0 2 671.6 17 68.1 69.9 69.0 T 080 6.2 10 080 0.0 2 670.6 18 68.7 71.5 70.3 T 080 3.9 8 080 0.0 0 667.5 19 71.0 73.3 72.0 T 080 2.8 8 080 0.0 2 667.3 20 69.0 72.0 70.5 T 070 5.1 8 050 0.0 2 672.7 21 60.4 71.8 66.3 T 050 5.3 12 360 0.0 5 676.0 22 48.5 60.2 54.0 T 350 14.8 27 350 0.0 8 679.9 23 47.0 53.7 48.3 T 330 6.2 10 320 0.0 6 677.0 24 51.2 61.5 58.8 T 070 3.2 6 090 0.0 6 671.4 25 58.6 62.4 60.0 T 090 7.0 12 120 0.0 1 668.9 26 61.9 69.6 64.8 T 120 8.4 14 090 0.0 2 663.3 27 68.9 69.8 69.3 0 130 11.9 22 120 0.0 1 664.0 28 54.5 70.0 59.4 T 340 10.4 23 340 0.0 8 666.5 29 49.6 64.8 57.7 0 360 14.8 24 340 0.0 6 668.5 30 41.2 50.2 45.2 0 320 17.6 29 300 0.0 7 682.9 AVG 58.1 64.2 61.0 T 010 10.6 36 350 0.0 4 673.3 7th AVG MONTHLY -61.0 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 12 HIGHEST -41.2 ON 30th SUNSHINE 0.0/ 0% PARTLY CLOUDY 13 LOWEST -73.3 ON 19th CLOUDY 05 HIGH PRESSURE 689.8 ON 30th LOW PRESSURE 660.8 ON 26th NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: -2.07 inches Sunrise occurred at 2257UTC 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 Old LCD and Corrected LCD. All Sky Cover changed to Octas. 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 hourly observations. LCD data originally reported in NZST. Changed Extremes: From To Max T -44.4 -41.2 Min T Changed Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 58.5 58.1 Avg Wnd Spd 10.3 10.5 Avg Press 673.0 673.3 Min T 64.9 64.2 Max Press Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T 61.7 61.0 Min Press Changes to Daily Data: Max Temp Day 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15 From: 66.6 62.9 58.7 58.7 50.7 51.4 52.8 51.7 55.0 58.3 56.8 To: 64.0 58.7 59.3 56.5 49.5 52.8 51.7 55.0 55.6 56.8 57.0 Day 16 17 19 20 21 22 24 26 27 28 29 30 From: 61.8 67.7 70.0 70.3 68.7 53.1 47.0 58.8 62.5 57.1 54.5 44.4 To: 66.6 68.1 71.0 69.0 60.4 48.5 51.2 61.9 68.9 54.5 49.6 41.2 Min Temp Day 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 14 15 From: 72.9 72.1 69.7 62.1 63.9 58.9 52.6 56.3 58.1 62.7 61.1 61.8 To: 72.1 70.7 65.2 63.9 62.3 57.0 56.3 54.5 62.7 61.1 60.3 67.5 Day 16 17 18 19 20 22 23 24 25 26 30 From: 68.8 69.8 71.0 72.3 73.3 70.8 53.2 59.4 61.5 66.4 62.1 To: 69.8 69.9 71.5 73.3 72.0 60.2 53.7 61.5 62.4 69.6 50.2 Avg Temp Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 From: 71.6 70.0 68.6 66.3 60.2 61.2 55.9 50.0 53.5 54.3 54.6 56.1 58.4 59.5 58.7 To: 71.2 68.6 68.4 62.4 61.0 58.9 52.3 51.7 53.4 54.5 56.0 57.8 59.0 58.4 62.5 Day 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 From: 64.3 68.6 69.4 71.1 71.6 70.1 59.7 49.3 53.2 59.7 61.9 67.8 66.3 58.7 50.3 To: 68.0 69.0 70.3 72.0 70.5 66.3 54.0 48.3 58.8 60.0 64.8 69.3 59.4 57.7 45.2 Number of NZSP observations per day: 24