Temperature percentile
You are working for a national weather agency and have been tasked to create a report that indicates what percentile a month falls in based on its hottest temperatures. Knowing the percentile will help rank the hottest months.
You will be looking at weather data from California, CA.
This exercise is part of the course
Time Series Analysis in PostgreSQL
Exercise instructions
- Rank the
t_monthly_maxfor the state ofCAand have this ranking be a percentile.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
-- Rank the hottest months with a percentile
SELECT
ts.state,
year_month,
t_monthly_max,
___ OVER (ORDER BY t_monthly_max DESC) AS percent_rank
FROM temperatures_monthly AS tm
JOIN temperature_stations AS ts
USING(station_id)
WHERE state = 'CA'
ORDER BY percent_rank;