I am a dart frog addict…er…hobbyist. You can read more about my involvement in the hobby here, but one aspect of the hobby that intersects with my analytics background is weather data. I try to locate weather stations near the regions in South America where the frogs I keep were originally collected. This has led to some interesting visualizations, including this one, regional weather data for Sao Lourenco:
I located about 9 years of weather data from the Sao Lourenco area through NOAA. It was the most complete data set that I could locate. The main website for NOAA’s weather archive is here. I took the NOAA extract and cleaned up the anonymous values which dramatically decreased the size of the data set. I then got the data in the formats I needed, looking at daily views including the average, low and high temperature and RH value. Those values were plotted below along with the monthly statistics over the entire data set which gives us better insight into the typical monthly weather conditions for the region.