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Holiday Climatology Project and Weather Trivia

Holiday Climatology Project and Weather Trivia . By: Sarah Grana. Holiday Climatology.

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Holiday Climatology Project and Weather Trivia

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  1. Holiday Climatology Projectand Weather Trivia By: Sarah Grana

  2. Holiday Climatology Web pages were constructed containing high and low temperatures, precipitation, snowfall, snowdepth, averages, number of occurrences, and fun facts for nine major holidays in St. Louis, Columbia, and Quincy. The nine holidays are New Years, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.

  3. Purpose To have all of the data organized into one easily accessible document. To have something the media and public can look at and understand. When the holiday is approaching, you can easily link the web page to the top news of the day and to social media websites.

  4. Process First, the dates for each holiday were found dating as far back as 1874. Second, the high and low temperatures, precipitation, snowfall, and snowdepth were collected from xmACIS for each holiday in each city. The data was entered into an excel spreadsheet. Next, the highest highs, highest lows, the lowest highs and lowest lows were picked out of the spreadsheet as well as the highest precipitation, snowfall, and snowdepth. Then averages, percentages, and number of occurrences were calculated.

  5. Process After the spreadsheet was completed, a holiday template was created in CMS. From there, a web page for each holiday was made. The data from the spreadsheet was put into tables and fun facts were created from the averages, percentages, and number of occurrences. Colors and pictures representing each holiday were also chosen to make the web pages more appealing and fun. Lastly, a page was created with a link to each holiday. http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lsx/?n=holiday_climatology

  6. Challenges Getting around the missing data Figuring out how far back snowfall and snowdepth went in St. Louis, and whether or not snowfall and snowdepth was accurately recorded in Quincy. Deciding whether to include the average for snowdepth.

  7. What’s in it for you? Hopefully less calls about what is the chance for snow on Christmas, etc. If calls are received about the chance of snow, etc it will be very easy to find the information. Another way to be active on the social media pages. Something that can be put on the top new of the day easily.

  8. The Future of the Holiday Climatology Project Everything in the spreadsheet will be updated by Jason when necessary. He will also keep up with the web pages and change anything when needed.

  9. Weather Trivia The weather trivia page was updated with significant events from the significant events page. Each event was summarized and contains a link to the original page. http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lsx/?n=wxtrivia

  10. What’s in it for you? Another way to be active on social media websites. It will be easy to copy and paste the summary and the link will already be attached. This is something else that can be used for the top news of the day.

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