Introduction: The Effects of Latitude on Weather

The purpose of this project was to analyze how weather in a location is influenced by distance from the equator. To accomplish this analysis, we first generated a list of over 500 random cities from around the world that were somewhat equally spaced apart using CityPy. We then used OpenWeatherMap to collect the observed weather data for these cities for one single day.

After assembling the dataset, we used Matplolib to plot various aspects of the weather versus latitude. Factors we examined included: temperature, cloudiness, windspeed, and humidity. This site provides source data and visualizations created as a part of the analysis, as well as explanations of trends and any other correlations witnessed.