Us Weather History

datasets/five-thirty-eight-datasets

Files	Size	Format	Created	Updated	License	Source
10		csv				FiveThirtyEight - Us Weather History

This folder contains data and code behind the story What 12 Months Of Record-Setting Temperatures Looks Like Across The U.S.. Code file | Description date | The date of the weather record, formatted...

Data Files

File	Description	Size	Last modified	Download
KCLT				KCLT
KCQT				KCQT
KHOU				KHOU
KIND				KIND
KJAX				KJAX
KMDW				KMDW
KNYC				KNYC
KPHL				KPHL
KPHX				KPHX
KSEA				KSEA

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KCLT

KCQT

KHOU

KIND

KJAX

U.S. Weather History

This folder contains data and code behind the story What 12 Months Of Record-Setting Temperatures Looks Like Across The U.S..

Code

Code file	Description
`wunderground_scraper.py`	Downloades weather data web pages from Weather Underground
`wunderground_parser.py`	Parses the weather data from Weather Underground into a flat CSV file
`visualize_weather.py`	Creates the visualization of the weather data

Data

Column	Description
`date`	The date of the weather record, formatted YYYY-M-D
`actual_mean_temp`	The measured average temperature for that day
`actual_min_temp`	The measured minimum temperature for that day
`actual_max_temp`	The measured maximum temperature for that day
`average_min_temp`	The average minimum temperature on that day since 1880
`average_max_temp`	The average maximum temperature on that day since 1880
`record_min_temp`	The lowest ever temperature on that day since 1880
`record_max_temp`	The highest ever temperature on that day since 1880
`record_min_temp_year`	The year that the lowest ever temperature occurred
`record_max_temp_year`	The year that the highest ever temperature occurred
`actual_precipitation`	The measured amount of rain or snow for that day
`average_precipitation`	The average amount of rain or snow on that day since 1880
`record_precipitation`	The highest amount of rain or snow on that day since 1880

Source: Weather Underground

This dataset was scraped from FiveThirtyEight - us-weather-history