Daily weather observations (air temperature, pressure, wind speed, wind direction, precipitation, sky cover) at Palmer Station, Antarctica (latitude 64deg 46min S; longitude 64deg 03min W) starting in April of 1989 - present

Weather data acquisition was originally by manual observation and continued with an automated system installed in Nov 2001. Measurements began shifting from manual to automated observations in June 2003 until the manual observations were ended in December 2003. Data are collected, compiled, and distributed by the US Antarctic polar contractor. Electronic distributed occurs monthly from Palmer station via internet and are available at University of Wisconsin weather archive: ftp://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/palmer/climatology/