R3: Plot is build entirely in RStudio. I pulled the data from the Global Historical Climate Network Daily (ghcn-d) dataset using the rnoaa package. Then just playing around with ggplot and gganimate packages and voila :)

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Queue the climate change denial.

It's pretty hard to actually detect the change over time because of the way new lines obscure the old. Does it come across more clearly if you make the lines somewhat transparent?

I unsuccessfully attempted to find a good formula to keep things transparent enough. Especially for TMAX the difference at this scale is fairly low outside of summer months.

The changes become a little more evident when grouping by decades and binning by seasons, but those make no sense to animate. Feel free to check out https://www.reddit.com/r/Reno/comments/y3obr5/a_little_more_reno_weather_data/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf for some other visualizations around this.

Do they have the ability to queue?

Good point. I was predicting far worse from Reddit, but so far it seems we might have squeaked out clean. I guess nutjobs (on both sides) don't follow data science, lol.

Honest question, does anyone really deny climate change? Isn’t the big debate about the causes of climate change?

Yes. They queue anon.

The highs didn’t get higher, but the lows got higher. Why is that?

Great question!

I assume a good chunk of that is about urban heat island effects. Reno has experienced quite a bit of growth during this period, and I believe the climate station is at the airport, which is right where a lot of the city expanded towards and beyond.

Wouldn’t know what else it could be though let me know if you find other good explanations (:

I mean this plot doesn’t do much justice showing there is a significant rise in temp

T max started noticeably rising mid-2000s while T min rise was mid-80s.

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UHI ia strongest in summer nights.

seems like fewer people do not than they did 5 years ago.

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