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Weather in Central Park NY in May 2003
Description
A listing of various weather measurements made at Central Park in New
York City during the month of May 2003.
Usage
data(central.park)
Format
A data frame with 31 observations on the following 19 variables.
- DY
- the day
- MAX
- maximum temperature (temperatures in Farenheit)
- MIN
- minimum temperature
- AVG
- average temperature
- DEP
- departure from normal
- HDD
- heating degree days
- CDD
- cooling degree days
- WTR
- Water fall. A factor as "T" is a trace.
- SNW
- Amount of snowfall
- DPTH
- Depth of snow
- SPD
- Average wind speed
- SPD1
- Max wind speed
- DIR
- 2 minimum direction
- MIN2
- Sunshine measurement a factor with two levels
0
M
- PSBL
- Sunshine measurement a factor with levels
0
M
- S.S
- Sunshine measurement. 0-3 = Clear, 4-7 partly cloudy,
8-10 is cloudy
- WX
- (This is not as documented in the data source. Ignore this
variable. It should be:
1 = FOG,
2 = FOG REDUCING VISIBILITY
TO 1/4 MILE OR LESS,
3 = THUNDER,
4 = ICE PELLETS,
5 = HAIL,
6 = GLAZE OR RIME,
7 = BLOWING DUST OR SAND:
VSBY 1/2 MILE OR LESS,
8 = SMOKE OR HAZE,
9 = BLOWING SNOW,
X = TORNADO)
- SPD3
- peak wind speed
- DR
- direction of peak wind
Details
This datasets summarizes the weather in New York City during the merry
month of May 2003. This data set comes from the daily climate report
issued by the National Weather Service Office.
Source
This data is published
by http://www.noah.gov.
Examples
data(central.park)
attach(central.park)
barplot(rbind(MIN,MAX-MIN),ylim=c(0,80))
[Package
UsingR version 0.1-12
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