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Calculating monthly temperature swings

You are a data scientist on a weather project. You've previously analyzed how minimum and maximum monthly temperatures can vary over time and by location.

Now you are interested in the monthly temperature swing. This is given by the formula:

monthly maximum temperature - monthly minimum temperature.

temperature_stations and temperatures_monthly are available to you.

This exercise is part of the course

Time Series Analysis in PostgreSQL

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Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

-- Calculate monthly temperature swing per location and month
SELECT
  state,
  year_month,
  ___ AS monthly_swing
FROM ___
___
ORDER BY state, year_month;
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