clemson_tempsR Documentation

Daily Clemson Temperature Data

Description

This data set contains daily temperatures (highs and lows) for Clemson, South Carolina from Jan. 1, 1930 to the end of the most recent calendar year. The goal is to update this periodically with new data for as long as I live in this town.

Usage

clemson_temps

Format

A data frame with 33,148 observations on the following 3 variables.

date

the date

tmin

the daily low, adjusted to Fahrenheit

tmax

the daily high, adjusted to Fahrenheit

Details

Data obtained from NOAA, via the rnoaa package. The station identifier is GHCND:USC00381770 for added context. The call from rnoaa returns these values initially as Celsius*10. I don't know why NOAA does it this way, but there you go.