weatherR Documentation

Hourly weather data

Description

Hourly meterological data for LGA, JFK and EWR.

Usage

weather

Format

A data frame with columns:

origin

Weather station. Named origin to facilitate merging with flights data.

year, month, day, hour

Time of recording.

temp, dewp

Temperature and dewpoint in F.

humid

Relative humidity.

wind_dir, wind_speed, wind_gust

Wind direction (in degrees), speed and gust speed (in mph).

precip

Precipitation, in inches.

pressure

Sea level pressure in millibars.

visib

Visibility in miles.

time_hour

Date and hour of the recording as a POSIXct date.

Source

ASOS download from Iowa Environmental Mesonet, https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/request/download.phtml.