central.park {UsingR}R Documentation

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 Index]