This data corresponds to weather reports collected through mPing, an app developed by NOAA (see: http://mping.nssl.noaa.gov/). These reports were collected since June 18 to July 14th in order to see the frequency of reports and type of events.

During this period the number of reports was:

## [1] 12591

The dataset look is:

##   ID oldID      Date  Time   Lat   Long   Event
## 1  1    1: 6/18/2014 12:00 41.31 -96.00 Drizzle
## 2  2    2: 6/18/2014 12:00 41.66 -80.14    Rain
## 3  3    3: 6/18/2014 12:01 29.89 -97.95    None
## 4  4    4: 6/18/2014 12:03 29.89 -97.95    None
## 5  5    5: 6/18/2014 12:07 41.30 -95.96    Rain
## 6  6    6: 6/18/2014 12:07 30.28 -97.77    None

The number of events by category is:

##      Blowing Dust         Dense Fog           Drizzle           Flood-1 
##                13               251               986                68 
##           Flood-2           Flood-3  Freezing Drizzle     Freezing Rain 
##                43                 1                 5                 5 
##       Ice Pellets          Mudslide              None              Rain 
##                 3                 9              3020              7514 
##  Rain/Ice Pellets Rain/Ice Pellets               Snow              Test 
##                11                 1                 6               378 
##            Wind-1            Wind-2            Wind-3            Wind-4 
##               177                53                37                 8 
##            Wind-5 
##                 2

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