Weather data for hunting units and seasons

# Historic weather data for hunt units
# Reference some accessible APIs here /datasets/investigate options to gather historic weather data.R

Description

Use the historic data provided by Dark Sky to attach to each unit. We will need to make some basic assumptions to get this started.

• Use the centroid coordinates of the Unit for the historic weather data, in some cases (due to elevation), the weather estimates won’t be that accurate for the unit. But it is a way to get this started.
• Hunt season are a span of days. I will use the mean, max, and average across all of the season dates as the weather data points.

Step 1 - Get Unit coordinates

I’ve created a separate script to calculate this

# source(myGMUcoordinatescript)

Step 2 - Get hunt season dates

I’ve created a separate script to populate per CPW

source("~/_code/colorado-dow/datasets/CO rifle elk hunt season dates.R",echo = F)

Step 3 - Connect to Dark Sky and request data

# API key

Step 4 - Attach weather data to Units and Seasons