Beach Weather Stations - Automated Sensors - 2015 - Air Temperature
data.cityofchicago.org | Last Updated 9 Sep 2016The Chicago Park District maintains weather sensors at beaches along Chicago's Lake Michigan lakefront. These sensors generally capture the indicated measurements hourly while the sensors are in operation during the summer. During other seasons and at some other times, information from the sensors may not be available. See https://data.cityofchicago.org/id/qmqz-2xku for a dataset with similar measurements on the lake water, itself.
This dataset has the following 18 columns:
Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Description | Sample Values |
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Station Name | station_name | text | Foster Weather Station Oak Street Weather Station 63rd Street Weather Station view top 100 | |
Measurement Timestamp | measurement_timestamp | calendar_date | The date and time when the measurements were taken. | 2015-07-31T13:00:00.000 2015-08-10T11:00:00.000 2015-07-23T12:00:00.000 2015-07-31T12:00:00.000 2015-08-05T16:00:00.000 view top 100 |
Air Temperature | air_temperature | number | Air Temperature in Celsius degrees. | 22 18.5 20 22.5 16 view top 100 |
Wet Bulb Temperature | wet_bulb_temperature | number | Wet bulb temperature in Celsius degrees. | 17.6 20.6 17.7 17.3 18 view top 100 |
Humidity | humidity | number | Percent relative humidity. | 78 82 76 71 75 view top 100 |
Rain Intensity | rain_intensity | number | Rain intensity in mm per hour. | 0 0.6 1.2 1.8 2.4 view top 100 |
Interval Rain | interval_rain | number | Rain since the last hourly measurement, in mm. | 0 0.1 0.03 0.2 0.3 view top 100 |
Total Rain | total_rain | number | Total rain since midnight in mm. | 879.8 4.9 411.7 215 26 view top 100 |
Precipitation Type | precipitation_type | number | 0 = No precipitation 60 = Liquid precipitation, e.g. rain - Ice, hail and sleet are transmitted as rain (60). 70 = Solid precipitation, e.g. snow 40 = unspecified precipitation | 0 60 70 view top 100 |
Wind Direction | wind_direction | number | Wind direction in degrees. | 0 269 270 268 271 view top 100 |
Wind Speed | wind_speed | number | Wind speed in meters per second at the time the record was reported. | 1.3 1.7 1.2 2.1 1.5 view top 100 |
Maximum Wind Speed | maximum_wind_speed | number | Maximum wind speed in the two-minute period immediately preceding the time the record was reported. | 2.1 2.5 3 2.6 2.4 view top 100 |
Barometric Pressure | barometric_pressure | number | Barometric pressure in hPa. | 993.6 992.9 991.9 994.6 991.2 view top 100 |
Solar Radiation | solar_radiation | number | Solar radiation in watts per square meter. | 0 1 2 3 4 view top 100 |
Heading | heading | number | The current heading of the wind-measurement unit. The ideal value to get the most accurate measurements is true north (0 degrees) and the unit is manually adjusted, as necessary, to keep it close to this heading | 0 354 355 353 359 view top 100 |
Battery Life | battery_life | number | Battery voltage, an indicator of remaining battery life used by the Chicago Park District to know when batteries should be replaced. | 15.1 12.1 11.9 12 15.2 view top 100 |
Measurement Timestamp Label | measurement_timestamp_label | text | The Last Updated value in text format, suitable for use in the Visualize function. | 12/21/2015 10:00 PM 11/05/2015 11:00 AM 08/06/2015 10:00 PM 09/01/2015 3:00 AM 12/18/2015 6:00 AM view top 100 |
Measurement ID | measurement_id | text | A unique record ID made up of the Station Name and Measurement Timestamp. | FosterWeatherStation201512271300 63rdStreetWeatherStation201508192400 OakStreetWeatherStation201512180500 63rdStreetWeatherStation201510300300 FosterWeatherStation201506072300 view top 100 |