***Corrected Winter 2010***

LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HISTORY OF THE AMUNDSEN SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION

YEAR	1996
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	51.9	62.7	55.6	T	020	12.4	21	360	 3.6	6	683.8	SG,IC,BS
2	49.2	55.0	51.8	T	030	 9.7	20	010	 0.0	7	685.6	SG,BS
3	48.2	56.9	53.8	T	090	 7.7	13	070	 6.5	5	680.8	SG
4	56.8	63.4	60.9	T	070	 5.8	10	060	13.8	5	680.2	SG
5	58.4	61.7	59.6	0	080	 5.5	15	050	 8.3	5	683.5	
6	58.9	61.7	60.3	0	060	 7.7	13	070	 2.7	5	685.6	
7	52.4	60.9	57.0	0	040	 7.8	13	010	17.3	7	683.1	
8	51.3	55.6	53.0	0	060	 7.9	14	050	 0.0	8	678.8	
9	54.9	59.7	57.5	T	090	11.0	18	090	 0.0	3	667.4	SG,BS
10	58.0	65.2	61.4	0	080	 7.6	13	080	21.5	0	661.2	IF,BS
11	60.0	66.2	63.5	0	070	 5.6	10	040	24.0	6	672.1	IF
12	56.6	60.6	58.3	T	090	 7.3	12	060	 9.2	5	678.2	SG
13	58.3	61.4	60.1	T	100	 4.9	12	100	24.0	1	678.1	IC
14	58.8	61.4	59.7	T	100	 5.8	12	080	24.0	2	676.8	IC
15	55.3	59.6	57.7	T	080	 2.5	 8	070	21.4	3	675.0	IC
16	57.7	60.5	59.4	T	070	 6.0	13	060	22.9	4	672.8	SG
17	54.8	59.9	56.7	T	040	10.6	17	020	24.0	2	671.5	IC
18	52.5	55.0	53.6	T	030	15.1	23	020	13.4	6	668.2	SG,BS
19	52.5	54.1	53.5	0	040	11.5	17	030	14.8	6	664.4	BS
20	53.0	54.6	54.0	0	040	12.2	20	030	19.5	6	658.8	BS
21	53.6	57.0	55.5	0	010	11.0	16	360	22.9	6	656.7	BS
22	47.6	57.0	53.1	T	330	13.8	22	310	13.2	8	657.2	SG,BS
23	47.2	49.0	47.9	T	330	12.6	22	320	 1.0	7	663.7	SG,BS
24	48.5	50.2	49.3	T	360	13.9	20	350	 8.7	7	667.6	SG,BS
25	49.3	50.9	50.0	0	020	14.5	22	010	22.0	4	665.9	BS
26	48.0	50.8	49.8	0	020	18.0	25	010	21.7	3	668.8	BS
27	46.8	48.7	47.7	0	010	17.8	26	360	13.9	7	673.0	BS
28	39.0	47.3	45.2	T	020	20.0	38	360	 4.4	8	677.7	SG,IC,BS
29	32.5	39.0	34.2	0	360	28.7	41	350	 0.0	8	681.5	BS
30	31.6	41.1	34.8	T	010	18.9	38	010	 0.0	5	681.2	SG,BS
31	40.1	49.3	45.1	T	060	 6.6	16	020	21.3	2	681.1	SG,IC,BS

AVG	51.1	56.0	53.5	T	020	11.0	41	350	12.9	5	673.6
							29th
AVG MONTHLY	-53.5		PCPN	TRACE			NR DAYS CLEAR	05
HIGHEST	-31.6	ON 30th		SUNSHINE	400.0/54.0%	PARTLY CLOUDY 	17
LOWEST	-66.2	ON 11th						CLOUDY		09
				HIGH PRESSURE	686.2	ON  6th				
				LOW PRESSURE	656.0	ON 22nd
				
NET CHANGE IN SNOWSTAKE FIELD:	+2.87 inches				

VECTORED WIND DIRECTION FOR THE MONTH:  32.9 Degrees	
VECTORED WIND SPEED FOR THE MONTH:      8.0 Kts.		

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 Extremes:	
	From	To	
Max T			
Min T	-66.4	-66.2	

Changed Monthly Averages:  (All temps are Minus C)
	From	To			From	To			From	To
Max T	51.4	51.1	Avg Wnd Spd	11.1	11.0	Avg Press		
Min T	56.3	56.0	Max Press			Fastest Wnd MPH	42	41
Avg T	53.9	53.5	Min Press						

Changes to Daily Data:

All daily data changed to reflect values reported with respect to UTC.