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What are the 5 UK weather stations?

  1. Leuchars

  2. Leeming

  3. Heathrow

  4. Hurn

  5. Camborne

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What are the 3 overseas weather stations?

  1. Jacksonville, USA

  2. Beijing, China

  3. Perth, Australia

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3

Units for daily mean temperature

Degrees celsius

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Amount of rainfall below which the day is recorded as ‘tr’

0.05mm

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What is daily total sunshine recorded to?

Nearest 10th of an hour

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What are daily mean windspeed and maximum gust measured in?

Knots

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1 knot =

1.15 mph

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4 terms of the Beaufort scale

  1. Calm (0 & <1 knot)

  2. Light (1-3 & 1-10 knots)

  3. Moderate (4 & 11-16 knots)

  4. Fresh (5 & 17-21 knots)

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Relative humidities above this give rise to misty and foggy conditions

95%

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What is daily mean cloud cover measured in?

Oktas (8ths of sky covered by cloud)

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What is daily mean visibility measured in?

Decameters (Dm) - the greatest hz distance @ which an object can be seen in daylight

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What is daily mean pressure measured in?

Hectopascals (hPa)

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What happened in mid-October 1987 that may skew some UK data?

The great storm of 1987 - wind speeds increased; south particularly affected

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14

Data cleaning

Considering and removing from calculations days that have missing recordings - not every day has a recording for every variable

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