The large data set: eternal torture

Question 1

What does n/a mean?

Answer 1

The data is not available.

Question 2

When is the data from?

Answer 2

May-October, 9:00-9:00

Question 3

Locations on a map?

Answer 3

UK down and left:
Leuchars
Leeming (inland)
Heathrow (inland)
Hurn
Camborne

Southern hemisphere: Perth

Jacksonville is coastal. Beijing in inland.

Question 4

What does tr mean?

Answer 4

Rainfall is less than 0.05 mm.

Question 5

How do you convert between knots and mph?

Answer 5

1 knot = 1.15 mph

Question 6

What is a relative humidity of 95% indicative of?

Answer 6

Mist and fog.

Question 7

Units for daily mean temperature?

Answer 7

C°

Question 8

Units for daily total rainfall?

Answer 8

mm

Question 9

What is the maximum rainfall recorded?

Answer 9

51.6 mm in Heathrow - October 2015
102 mm in Perth - May 2015

Question 10

Units for daily total sunshine?

Answer 10

Hours (to one dp)

Question 11

What are the max and min values for daily total sunshine?

Answer 11

Heathrow 2015 -15 hrs and 0 hrs

Question 12

Units for wind/ gust speed?

Answer 12

Knots or Beaufort conversion and direction given to 10°, from true North.

Question 13

Max and min wind speeds?

Answer 13

23 kns in Leuchars in June, 2015
14.1 kns in Perth in October, 2015

2 kns in Hurn in October, 2015
0.9 kns in Jacksonville in October, 2015

Question 14

What is visibility and what is it’s units?

Answer 14

Greatest horizontal distance at which an object can be seen in daylight.
Measured in decametres (Dm),

Question 15

Unit for pressure?

Answer 15

hectopascals

Question 16

Max and min pressure?

Answer 16

Heathrow 2015: 1036-989 hPa

Question 17

What is daily mean total cloud cover and how is it measured?

Answer 17

How many eighths of the sky is covered.
Measured in oktas.

Question 18

Hotest and coldest months

Answer 18

July/August.
October/March

Question 19

Hotest location and coldest location?

Answer 19

Jacksonville is hotter than Beijing on average but Beijing has the hotest recorded day.

Australian summer months are not measured but UK is still slightly colder on average.

Question 20

Driest and wetest months?

Answer 20

June.
Augustish.

Question 21

Driest place?

Answer 21

In the UK: Heathrow 1.8 mm mean rainfall.
Perth on average.

Beijing is the wetest on average.

Question 22

Which measurements should not be modelled using a normal distribution?

Answer 22

Windspeed (Beauforte) and cloud cover as they are qualitative.

Rainfall, daily mean pressure and daily windspeed are not symmetric.

Question 23

Typical wind speeds?

Answer 23

7.7-9.4 knt with coastal cities being windier.

Question 24

Windiest months?

Answer 24

May for UK and Beijing.
Perth/Jacksonville:
September/October.

Question 25

Windiest and least windy places?

Answer 25

Winder by coastal/ northern regions of the UK (but inconsistent)

Beijing.

Question 26

Any radical events?

Answer 26

Great storm in October 1987 in the UK.