Weather BlockPy Library

From the CORGIS Dataset Project

By Austin Cory Bart, Ryan Whitcomb
Version 2.0.0, created 6/13/2016
Tags: weather, rain, snow, sleet, fog, temperature, wind, climate, environment, geology

Overview

Under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Weather Service provides daily weather reports for cities across the county. This is done through the use of 122 different Weather Forcast Offices throughout the country. These WFOs are responsible for the daily weather reports for serveral cities throughout their region of coverage. This data set takes the information from these WFO reports for cities across the country and summarizes it at the weekly level for all of 2016.

http://w2.weather.gov/climate/

Key Descriptions

Key	List of...	Comment	Example Value
Data.Precipitation	Float	The average amount of rain, in inches.	0.0
Date.Full	String	A full string representation of the date this report was made.	"2016-01-03"
Date.Month	Integer	The month of the year that this report was made.	1
Date.Week of	Integer	The first day of the week that this report was made.	3
Date.Year	Integer	The year that this report was made.	2016
Station.City	String	The city that the reporting station sends its data to. Note that the recording station itself might actually be in a different city.	"Birmingham"
Station.Code	String	The unique code representing this station.	"BHM"
Station.Location	String	The exact location of this recording station. Note that the recording station itself might be in a different location than where it sends its data.	"Birmingham, AL"
Station.State	String	The state that the reporting station sends its data to. Note that the recording station itself might actually be in a different state.	"Alabama"
Data.Temperature.Avg Temp	Integer	The average recorded temperature on this week, in degrees Fahrenheit.	39
Data.Temperature.Max Temp	Integer	The highest recorded temperature on this week, in degrees Fahrenheit.	46
Data.Temperature.Min Temp	Integer	The lowest recorded temperature on this week, in degrees Fahrenheit.	32
Data.Wind.Direction	Integer	The average wind direction for that week, in degrees.	33
Data.Wind.Speed	Float	The average windspeed for that week, in Miles per Hour.	4.33