A table listing all NOAA GHCND weather stations within 100km of each prognosticator's city coordinates. Note: As of 2025, weather data primarily comes from Open-Meteo ERA5 reanalysis. GHCND stations are only used for Punxsutawney Phil's pre-1940 predictions (1887-1939).
Format
A data frame with 15045 rows and 6 columns:
- prognosticator_city
Where the prognosticator is located
- id
The weather station's ID number. The first two letters denote the country (using FIPS country codes)
- name
The station's name
- latitude
The station's latitude, in decimal degrees. Southern latitudes will be negative
- longitude
The station's longitude, in decimal degrees. Western longitudes will be negative
- distance
distance (km) from coordinates searched