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## 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
  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 is published by http://www.noah.gov.

### Examples

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

[Package UsingR version 0.1-4 Index]