Introduction

All of the data used in this report was collected at John Glenn International Airport in Columbus, Ohio between the years of 2010 and 2018 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Daily Temperatures

In the box plots below, each point represents a single day and the maximum or minimum temperature for each of those days of every year there was data gathered. By looking at these plots, we can find two interesting pieces of information. One of these being, both plots are fairly normal shaped. For this data set, that means the warmest maximum and minimum temperatures occur in June, July, and August while the coldest occur in January and December. Another piece of information we are able to identify is that there is a larger spread of temperatures in the earlier/later months of the year than the middle months. The box plots for January and December are much larger than they are for July. This shows that the temperatures are more inconsistent in those months than they are in July.

Averages and Standard Deviations by Month

This table gathers the information for every month during the years of data collected and complies it to give us each month’s average maximum and minimum temperature as well as the standard deviations for those averages. By using this table, we are able to answer a variety of questions. One of these questions is which month(s) have the highest/lowest maximum and minimum temperatures which we can see is January for lowest and July for highest. Another question that can be answered would be is the difference between the average maximum temperature from January to July the same as the difference between the average minimum from January to July. The data shows that the difference is very close but not the same. There is a bigger difference in maximums than minimums.

MONTH AverageMaxTemp StandardDeviationMaxTemp AverageMinTemp StandardDeviationMinTemp
1 36.11111 12.800567 21.10394 12.359714
2 40.11811 13.896065 23.87795 12.246677
3 51.79570 12.805596 33.12186 10.438904
4 65.07037 10.477745 43.18519 9.202541
5 76.02509 10.005542 55.79928 8.999752
6 82.95185 6.494600 63.20000 6.006564
7 85.70968 5.862785 66.78853 5.158817
8 84.57706 4.950871 64.96416 5.244950
9 78.35556 8.496198 58.19259 7.679932
10 65.91398 10.970847 46.44444 8.877441
11 52.36296 11.180910 34.74074 8.867017
12 42.18638 11.473508 29.16487 9.947057

Monthly High and Low Averages

These graphs give a visual representation of some of the data in the table above. Each graph represent either the monthly maximum averages or monthly minimums averages. These graphs are fairly normal shaped with the highest temperatures occurring in July while the coldest occur in January and December. The legend helps show a difference in temperatures for each month.

2018 April Highs

This time graph represents the daily high temperature of each day in April of 2018. The maximum temperature occurred between April 09 and April 16 while the minimum temperature occurred soon after April 16.