kshitijs12 / rain-prediction

Harnessing Meteorological Indicators for Rain Prediction

• This project focusses on the analysis of various weather variables taken daily from different locations in Australia over a period of time.
• This meteorogical data is then used to train models to be able to predict chances of Rain for today and tomorrow.
• The best model is then deployed using the Flask server.

Data

The data in use is stored in a csv file and is names weatherAUS.csv. It is taken directly from Kaggle.

• The data contains 145460 rows where each row has the weather information for a day and location.
• The total number of columns are 23. Their description is as follows.

Column Name	Definition	Units
Date	Date of the Observation taken	N/A
Location	Location of the Weather Station	N/A
MinTemp	Minimum temperature in the 24 hours to 9am. Sometimes only known to the nearest whole degree	Degrees Celsius
MaxTemp	Maximum temperature in the 24 hours to 9am. Sometimes only known to the nearest whole degree	Degrees Celsius
Rainfall	Precipitation (rainfall) in the 24 hours to 9am. Sometimes only known to the nearest whole millimeter	Millimeters
Evaporation	"Class A" pan evaporation in the 24 hours to 9am	Millimeters
Sunshine	Bright sunshine in the 24 hours to midnight	Hours
WindGustDir	Direction of the strongest wind gust in the 24 hours to midnight	16 compass points
WindGustSpeed	Speed of the strongest wind gust in the 24 hours to midnight	Kilometers per hour
WindDir9am	Direction of the wind at 9am	16 compass points
WindDir3pm	Direction of the wind at 3pm	16 compass points
WindSpeed9am	Speed of the wind at 9am	Kilometers per hour
WindSpeed3pm	Speed of the wind at 3pm	Kilometers per hour
Humidity9am	Relative humidity at 9am	Percent
Humidity3pm	Relative humidity at 3pm	Percent
Pressure9am	Atmospheric pressure reduced to mean sea level at 9am	Hectopascals
Pressure3pm	Atmospheric pressure reduced to mean sea level at 3pm	Hectopascals
Cloud9am	Fraction of sky obscured by cloud at 9am	Eighths(oktas)
Cloud3pm	Fraction of sky obscured by cloud at 3pm	Eighths(oktas)
Temp9am	Temparature at 9am	Degrees Celsius
Temp3pm	Temparature at 3am	Degrees Celsius
RainToday	Did the current day receive precipitation exceeding 1mm in the 24 hours to 9am	Binary (0 = No, 1 = Yes)
RainTomorrow	Did the next day receive precipitation exceeding 1mm in the 24 hours to 9am	Binary (0 = No, 1 = Yes)

Code

• Editor: Jupyter Notebook
• Python Version: 3.9.7
• Libraries Used: calender, numpy, pandas, matplotlib, seaborn, sklearn, pickle, json, flask

Authors

• @KshitijS12