***Corrected Winter 2010*** LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION YEAR 1996 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 59.0 63.0 60.8 T 090 7.4 13 070 0.0 1 694.2 IC 2 61.3 65.0 63.4 T 100 5.0 10 070 0.0 2 692.9 IC 3 61.2 65.0 62.8 T 080 6.5 12 080 0.0 2 691.4 IC 4 56.6 66.5 63.2 T 080 4.7 13 060 0.0 5 689.8 IC 5 50.5 57.8 52.3 T 040 14.6 22 020 0.0 8 691.9 SG,IC,BS 6 50.2 61.9 55.0 T 070 12.5 21 050 0.0 5 692.8 SG,BS 7 61.8 68.2 65.7 T 100 8.4 14 100 0.0 2 691.8 SG,BS 8 64.7 69.2 67.3 T 100 9.7 14 090 0.0 2 690.0 SG,IC 9 57.8 64.9 60.9 T 090 11.9 16 070 0.0 4 685.0 IC,BS 10 51.8 58.4 54.9 T 040 16.1 29 020 0.0 4 683.0 SG,IC,BS 11 55.4 66.1 58.4 T 040 13.3 22 002 0.0 4 681.7 SG,BS 12 50.9 64.8 59.1 T 070 12.6 23 020 0.0 7 677.4 SG,BS 13 48.8 56.0 52.8 T 360 15.2 23 020 0.0 8 684.3 SG,BS 14 52.7 58.0 55.1 T 010 14.4 20 360 0.0 5 690.9 SG,BS 15 50.6 56.7 53.6 T 040 8.9 17 360 0.0 6 688.0 SG,BS 16 50.8 57.9 55.3 T 030 11.9 25 020 0.0 6 681.4 SG,BS 17 53.8 56.8 54.5 T 030 15.6 22 040 0.0 7 680.0 SG,BS 18 56.3 60.0 57.8 T 030 15.1 23 020 0.0 6 679.9 SG,BS 19 56.1 62.4 58.0 T 040 8.5 17 030 0.0 6 681.6 SG,BS 20 55.7 64.7 61.3 0 090 10.5 15 060 0.0 4 678.7 BS 21 53.6 61.9 56.7 T 070 11.0 20 050 0.0 4 680.9 SG,BS 22 54.7 63.2 60.5 0 080 10.8 17 040 0.0 3 681.3 BS 23 54.5 64.0 61.1 T 060 10.0 17 040 0.0 4 679.3 SG,BS 24 61.3 67.2 63.6 T 090 10.5 15 060 0.0 0 668.0 IC,BS 25 67.0 70.0 68.8 T 090 9.0 13 080 24.0 2 664.9 IC,BS 26 61.6 71.0 67.1 0 070 8.0 13 020 24.0 6 671.8 BS 27 58.2 62.0 60.0 T 030 10.8 16 020 3.0 7 677.2 SG,BS 28 58.8 64.2 61.8 T 070 10.4 16 060 2.0 2 674.0 SG,BS 29 56.2 64.2 59.7 0 040 10.9 17 050 9.0 6 670.3 BS 30 58.0 66.6 64.0 T 060 8.2 15 050 5.8 2 680.2 IC,BS AVG 56.3 63.3 59.9 T 040 10.7 29 020 6.5 4 682.7 10th AVG MONTHLY -59.9 PCPN TRACE NR DAYS CLEAR 09 HIGHEST -48.8 ON 13th SUNSHINE 67.8/ 27% PARTLY CLOUDY 16 LOWEST -71.0 ON 26th CLOUDY 05 HIGH PRESSURE 695.7 ON 1st LOW PRESSURE 663.7 ON 25th NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD: +0.69 inches Sunrise occurred at 1448UTC 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. Sunshine amount 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 Monthly Averages: (All temps are Minus C) From To From To From To Max T 56.7 56.3 Avg Wnd Spd Avg Press 682.7 682.5 Min T 63.1 63.3 Max Press 696.6 695.7 Fastest Wnd MPH Avg T Min Press Changes to Daily Data: All daily data changed to reflect values reported with respect to UTC.