Daily weather data was retrieved from Meteostat between January 1, 2018 and March 31, 2023 and is stored in a file named daily_weather__YYmmdd_HHMMSS.parquet.gzip
. Daily data contains the following columns of daily weather attributes
station
- Meteostat’s weather station ID
- in the previous step, this was chosen to be Toronto Airport weather station, so all weather data was retrieved from readings at this station only
time
(used in EDA)
- for daily data, this is the date in
YY-mm-dd
format
tavg
- average temperature (C)
tmin
- minimum temperature (C)
tmax
(used in EDA)
- maximum temperature (C)
prcp
- total precipitation (mm)
snow
- depth of snow (mm)
wdir
- average direction of the wind (degrees)
wspd
- average wind speed
wpgt
- peak wind gust speed
pres
- average air pressure at sea level
tsun
- minutes of total sunshine