Climate Trends of the Upper Peninsula, MI

What’s This About?

This exploration was part of a recent class assignment where I was tasked to develop a historic climate profile for a location I would like to live in the future. I picked the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for my location due to its regionally unique biogeography. I sourced PRISM climate data and built some climate charts.

Task & Objectives

The assignment for this exploration was to investigate climate (i.e., precipitation and temperature) trends for somewhere you want to live. I chose the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Tools & Workflow

Data were downloaded from PRISM.
Figure production was completed in RStudio with several packages: ggplot and tidyverse.

Final Results

Here are the resulting figures showing trends in precipitation and temperature for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan over the last ~100 years.