Learning Scientific Programming with Python (2nd edition)

P9.4.3: Analysing the weather in Cambridge, UK

Question P9.4.3

The Cambridge University Digital Technology Group have been recording the weather from the roof of their department building since 1995 and make the data available to download at www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/weather/.

Read in the entire data set and parse it with pandas to determine:

(a) the most common wind direction;

(b) the fastest wind speed measured;

(c) the year with the sunniest June;

(d) the day with the highest rainfall;

(e) the coldest temperature measured.

Note that there are occasional missing and invalid data points in the data set.