mosaic (version 0.4-1)

SnowGR: Snowfall data for Grand Rapids, MI

Description

Official snowfall data by month and season for Grand Rapids, MI, going back to 1893.

format

A data frame with 119 observations of the following variables.

• SeasonStartYear in which season started (July is start of season)
• SeasonEndYear in which season ended (June is end of season)
• JulInches of snow in July
• AugInches of snow in August
• SepInches of snow in September
• OctInches of snow in October
• NovInches of snow in November
• DecInches of snow in December
• JanInches of snow in January
• FebInches of snow in February
• MarInches of snow in March
• AprInches of snow in April
• MayInches of snow in May
• JunInches of snow in June
• TotalInches of snow for entire season (July-June)

source

These data were compiled by Laura Kapitula from data available at http://www.crh.noaa.gov/grr/climate/data/grr/snowfall/.

Examples

data(SnowGR)
histogram(~Total, data=SnowGR)
favstats(SnowGR$Total)
xyplot(Total ~ SeasonStart, SnowGR, type=c('p','smooth'))
if (require(reshape2)) {
  Snow2 <- melt(SnowGR, id=1:2)
  names(Snow2)[3:4] <- c('Time','Snow')
  bwplot(Snow ~ Time, Snow2)
}