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 at http://www.crh.noaa.gov/grr/climate/data/grr/snowfall/.

Examples

data(SnowGR)
if (require(mosaic)) {
  favstats(SnowGR$Total)
  histogram(~Total, data=SnowGR)
  xyplot(Total ~ SeasonStart, SnowGR, type=c('p','smooth'))
}
if (require(reshape2)) {
  Snow2 <- melt(SnowGR, id=1:2)
  names(Snow2)[3:4] <- c('Time','Snow')
  bwplot(Snow ~ Time, Snow2)
}