central.park {UsingR}

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 was published on http://www.noah.gov

Examples

data(central.park)
attach(central.park)
barplot(rbind(MIN,MAX-MIN),ylim=c(0,80))