Us Weather History

datasets/five-thirty-eight-datasets

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Files	Size	Format	Created	Updated	License	Source
10	207 kB	csv		over 6 years ago		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		20.6 kB	over 6 years ago	KCLT
KCQT		20.7 kB	over 6 years ago	KCQT
KHOU		20.7 kB	over 6 years ago	KHOU
KIND		20.6 kB	over 6 years ago	KIND
KJAX		20.7 kB	over 6 years ago	KJAX
KMDW		20.6 kB	over 6 years ago	KMDW
KNYC		20.6 kB	over 6 years ago	KNYC
KPHL		20.6 kB	over 6 years ago	KPHL
KPHX		21 kB	over 6 years ago	KPHX
KSEA		20.6 kB	over 6 years ago	KSEA

Data Previews

KCLT

Schema

name	type	format
date	date	default
actual_mean_temp	integer	default
actual_min_temp	integer	default
actual_max_temp	integer	default
average_min_temp	integer	default
average_max_temp	integer	default
record_min_temp	integer	default
record_max_temp	integer	default
record_min_temp_year	integer	default
record_max_temp_year	integer	default
actual_precipitation	number	default
average_precipitation	number	default
record_precipitation	number	default

KCQT

Schema

name	type	format
date	date	default
actual_mean_temp	integer	default
actual_min_temp	integer	default
actual_max_temp	integer	default
average_min_temp	integer	default
average_max_temp	integer	default
record_min_temp	integer	default
record_max_temp	integer	default
record_min_temp_year	integer	default
record_max_temp_year	integer	default
actual_precipitation	number	default
average_precipitation	number	default
record_precipitation	number	default

KHOU

Schema

name	type	format
date	date	default
actual_mean_temp	integer	default
actual_min_temp	integer	default
actual_max_temp	integer	default
average_min_temp	integer	default
average_max_temp	integer	default
record_min_temp	integer	default
record_max_temp	integer	default
record_min_temp_year	integer	default
record_max_temp_year	integer	default
actual_precipitation	number	default
average_precipitation	number	default
record_precipitation	number	default

KIND

Schema

name	type	format
date	date	default
actual_mean_temp	integer	default
actual_min_temp	integer	default
actual_max_temp	integer	default
average_min_temp	integer	default
average_max_temp	integer	default
record_min_temp	integer	default
record_max_temp	integer	default
record_min_temp_year	integer	default
record_max_temp_year	integer	default
actual_precipitation	number	default
average_precipitation	number	default
record_precipitation	number	default

KJAX

Schema

name	type	format
date	date	default
actual_mean_temp	integer	default
actual_min_temp	integer	default
actual_max_temp	integer	default
average_min_temp	integer	default
average_max_temp	integer	default
record_min_temp	integer	default
record_max_temp	integer	default
record_min_temp_year	integer	default
record_max_temp_year	integer	default
actual_precipitation	number	default
average_precipitation	number	default
record_precipitation	number	default

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