Punta Arenas, Chile weather observations; Dec 1896 to Dec 1954 (NCEI Accession 0294317)

Surface Observations from Punta Arenas, in extreme southern Chile. WMO station ID 85934; Period of record 1896-1954. The original forms were scanned at the Museo Salesiano Maggiorino Borgatello, a private regional museum in Punta Arenas with funding provided by NOAA, and keyed by a NOAA contractor. These data can be used to fill in missing data in the GHCN record for station GHCN ID CIN00520006. These data consist of three observations per day plus daily data for every day of the year for most years. Daily data elements are daily maximum and minimum air temperature, daily precipitation, and snow depth. Three-times daily elements are Air Pressure, Temperature, Wet Bulb Temperature, Wind Direction and Wind Speed, Cloud amount, and Visibility.