LARGE Data Set

• Weather data samples provided by Met Office for 5 UK and 3 overseas weather stations over 2 set periods of time (May to Oct 1987 and May to Oct 2015).
• Daily mean temperature in degrees celsius
• Daily total rainfall (mm)
• Daily total sunshine (hours)
• Daily mean windspeed (kn and Beaufort conversion)and wind direction (o)
• Daily maximum gust (kn) and direction (o)
• Daily maximum relative humidity (%)
• Daily mean cloud cover (oktas)
• Daily mean visibility (Dm)
• Daily mean pressure (hPa)
• Cardinal direction of both mean wind and daily max gust
• Weather Stations

  A) leuchars

  B) leeming

  C) heathrow

  D) camborne

  E) hum

  
• Mean Visibility: How far (in dm) can be seen into the horizon

  during daylight hours
• Maximum Gust (in kn) is highest instantaneous wind speed.
• Humidity is the % of air saturation with water vapour. 100% is the maximum % water content air can contain.
• Oktas means the number of 1/8ths covered in the sky
• Hectopascals (hPa)

  1 hPa =100Pa= 1 millibar
• Location Location Location

  A) Jacksonville

  B) Beijing

  C) Perth

  
• What is it?

  A) nm

  B) mm

  C) mm

  D) hPa

  E) hrs

  F) oktas