temps: Average Daily Temperatures
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temps

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Average Daily Temperatures

Description

A dataset containing daily average temperatures of New York and San Francisco in 2021 as recorded by the US National Weather Service (NWS) at weather.gov.

Usage

temps

Format

A data frame (specifically a tbl_df) with 730 rows and 3 variables:

city: New York or San Francisco
date: Date in YYYY-MM-DD format
avg: Average temperature in degrees Fahrenheit (°F) rounded to the nearest half degree

Details

It is difficult to pull data from the NWS. It does not provide the data via an API and the data it returns through its point-and-click interface isn't in plain text format! To make matters worse, you can only retrieve data from a city one month at a time.

For San Francisco, visit https://www.weather.gov/wrh/climate?wfo=mtr and choose "San Francisco City, CA", "Daily data for a month", and a month from 2021; for New York, visit https://www.weather.gov/wrh/climate?wfo=okx and choose "NY-Central Park Area", "Daily data for a month", and a month from 2021. Copy and paste the data into spreadsheet software for further processing.