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Tutorial: Goodness gracious, great balls of hail

• tutorial: http://sigmamonstr.github.io/tutorial_noaa_hail/
• repo: https://github.com/sigmamonstr/tutorial_noaa_hail/tree/gh-pages
• R code: https://github.com/sigmamonstr/tutorial_noaa_hail/tree/gh-pages/tutorial_files

intro

Hail storms can cause harm to people and property. This R tutorial with leaflet.js + Google Charts integration focuses on getting started with NOAA's severe weather data to assess and map hail risk around the US.

objective

• Demonstrate how to process, visualize and use NOAA's Severe Weather Data Inventory (SWDI -- https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/swdi/) in order to understand weather risks, particularly hail. Methods can be expanded to other events such as tornados.

code

This repository contains:

• An annotated R script of the data processing steps
• A number of wrappers for extracting data from the NOAA Severe Weather Data Inventory's API