Annual Snowfall in Buffalo, NY

One of the data sets considered in the book Multivariate Density Estimation: Theory, Practice, and Visualization by David W. Scott lists the annual amount of snowfall in Buffalo, New York. In the book, the data is used to illustrate the effect of the choice of bin widths and bin origin in a histogram.

The data provided on this web page merges the data from the book with two other sources, in order to extend the time series which covers the years 1910 to 2018.

Description

The data set has 109 rows and 2 columns:

year

The year which started during the corresponding winter. For example, the value 1910 indicates the period from July 1909 to June 1910.

snowfall

The amount of snowfall during the winter, in inches.

Data Sources

• http://mason.gmu.edu/~csutton/Buffalo.html — Lists data for 1910 to 1969.
• Multivariate Density Estimation: Theory, Practice, and Visualization by David W.  Scott — Table B.9 lists values for 1910 to 1972. This is a strict superset of the first source.
• Data from the US National Weather Service — This has monthly and annual data from July 1940 to October 2018. Except for the years 1948, 1967, and 1968, this matches the values from the other two datasets; I am using the values from the other sources where values mismatch. Oddly, for the winter 1953/54 the annual value is not the sum of the monthly values; since the given annual value matches the other sources, I am ignoring the monthly values.

Download

• buffalo.csv

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