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Irish Weather Data from Ireland’s Weather Observing Stations in 2017. Hourly records from January-December based on the following weather observation stations:

• Athenry, Co. Galway
• Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan
• Belmullet, Co. Mayo
• Casement Aerodrome, Co. Dublin
• Claremorris, Co. Mayo
• Cork Airport, Co. Cork
• Dublin Airport, Co. Dublin
• Dunsany (Grange), Co. Meath
• Finner Camp, Co. Donegal
• Gurteen, Co. Tipperary
• Johnstown Castle, Co. Wexford
• Knock Airport, Co. Mayo
• Mace Head, Co. Galway
• Malin Head, Co. Donegal
• Markree Castle, Co. Sligo
• Moore Park, Co. Cork
• Mount Dillon, Co. Roscommon
• Mullingar, Co. Westmeath
• Newport Furnace, Co. Mayo
• Oak Park, Co. Carlow
• Phoenix Park, Co. Dublin
• Roches point SWS, Co. Cork
• Shannon Airport, Co. Clare
• Sherkin Island, Co. Cork
• Valentia Observatory, Co. Kerry

See also, major weather events, which in 2017 including Storm Ophelia (October 9, 2017 – October 18, 2017)

Examples

In order to maximise the usefulness of the observations, R’s tidyverse tools such as dplyr and ggplot2 can be used. Here are three examples showing their use.

• Loading the data
• Exploring a weather event: Storm Ophelia
• Summarising hourly rainfall into monthly values

Author Information

• Author: Jim Duggan
• Affiliations
  • School of Computer Science, NUI Galway.
  • Ryan Institute, NUI Galway.
  • Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway.

Acknowledgement

• Copyright Met Éireann
• Source www.met.ie
• This data is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
• Met Éireann does not accept any liability whatsoever for any error or omission in the data, their availability, or for any loss or damage arising from their use.
• This material has been modified from the original, in terms of the following:
  • New columns added to the data for Year, Month, Day and Hour.
  • Columns representing indicators removed.
  • The column date transformed to a POSIXct type