Snowfall data for Grand Rapids, MI

Description

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

Usage

data(SnowGR)

Format

A data frame with 119 observations of the following variables.

SeasonStart

Year in which season started (July is start of season)

SeasonEnd

Year in which season ended (June is end of season)

Jul

Inches of snow in July

Aug

Inches of snow in August

Sep

Inches of snow in September

Oct

Inches of snow in October

Nov

Inches of snow in November

Dec

Inches of snow in December

Jan

Inches of snow in January

Feb

Inches of snow in February

Mar

Inches of snow in March

Apr

Inches of snow in April

May

Inches of snow in May

Jun

Inches of snow in June

Total

Inches of snow for entire season (July-June)

Source

These data were compiled by Laura Kapitula from data available from NOAA. The original URL used (http://www.crh.noaa.gov/grr/climate/data/grr/snowfall/) is no longer in service.

Examples

data(SnowGR)
if (require(ggformula)) {
  df_stats(~ Total, data = SnowGR)
  gf_histogram( ~ Total, data = SnowGR)
  gf_point(Total ~ SeasonStart, data = SnowGR) |>
    gf_smooth()

  if (require(tidyr) && require(dplyr)) {
    Snow2 <-
      SnowGR |>
      pivot_longer(Jul:Total, names_to = "month", values_to = "snowfall") |>
      filter(month != "Total") |>
      mutate(month = factor(month, levels = unique(month)))
    gf_violin(snowfall ~ month, data = Snow2, scale = "width")
  }
}