Large data set

Question 1

What times does it cover?

Answer 1

May to October
1987 and 2015

Question 2

When was there a “great storm” that affected Southern England?

Answer 2

16th October 1987
Gusts up to 100 knots recorded

Question 3

Where are the locations of the 5 weather stations in the UK, north to south?

Answer 3

Leuchars (coastal)
Leeming (inland)
Heathrow (inland)
Hurn (coastal)
Camborne (coastal)

Question 4

What are the main locations of the UK weather stations west to east?

Answer 4

Camborne
Hurn
Heathrow

Question 5

Where are the 3 weather locations overseas west to east?

Answer 5

Jacksonville (northern hemisphere, coastal)
Beijing (northern hemisphere, inland)
Perth (southern hemisphere, coastal)

Question 6

Is there info about summer and winter in the weather stations?

Answer 6

No info on winter for all UK locations, Beijing and Jacksonville
No summer info in Perth

Question 7

What does n/a mean?

Answer 7

Not available info
Need to be completely removed and total number of days reduced

Question 8

Should extreme weather values be included?

Answer 8

Yes if they are genuine readings but taken out if they are recording errors and number of days (n) reduced

Question 9

How complete is the data?

Answer 9

2015 - fully complete for all locations
1987 - fully completely EXCEPT some sunshine, windspeed and maximum gust data is missing (n/a) for a handful of days

Question 10

What is sunshine measured to?

Answer 10

The nearest 1/10th of an hour
Can have 0 hours of sunshine on cloudy days
Can’t have more than 15/6 hrs because IT GETS DARK

Question 11

What is windspeed measured in?

Answer 11

Knots
1 knot = 1.15mph

Question 12

What is cloud cover measured in?

Answer 12

Oktas
Discrete data and can take 9 values 0-8

Question 13

Temperature

Answer 13

Degrees celsius

Question 14

Rainfall

Answer 14

mm

Question 15

Sunshine

Answer 15

Hours

Question 16

Pressure

Answer 16

hPa

Question 17

Windspeed

Answer 17

mph
Knots

Question 18

Maximum gust

Answer 18

mph

Question 19

Relative humidity

Answer 19

%

Question 20

Cloud cover

Answer 20

Oktas

Question 21

Visibility

Answer 21

Dm

Question 22

Wind direction

Answer 22

Degrees

Question 23

Wind cardinal direction

Answer 23

N, SW, etc
Compass

Question 24

Maximum gust direction

Answer 24

Degrees

Question 25

Describe the times in seasons

Answer 25

End of spring = May/June
Summer = July-Sept
Autumn = October
But Perth is in southern hemi so July-Sept = Winter

Question 26

When was Hurricane Floyd and Hurricane Joaquin in Jacksonville, Florida?

Answer 26

Floyd = 12th October 1987
Joaquin = 1-2nd October 2015

Question 27

What does the Beaufort Scale measure?

Answer 27

Wind
Discrete data, scale of 13 values
0-12
0 = calm winds, <1kn
12 = hurricane, 64kn+