Seven-Day Reanlysis Data Composites
The following are a series of animations showing the changes in individual variables, throughout the seven-day period surrounding peak heating cycle days.
The data used to create these animations is listed below. For each of the seven days surrounding the peak heating cycle days (third day of the heating cycle), from three days before the peak to three days after the peak, a reanalysis data composite was created. The following variables were saved: 00Z temperature, daily slp, daily 500mb height, daily relative humidity, daily u and v wind components at both 925mb and 500mb, and the daily lifted index. The standard deviation of each variable was also saved.
Programming:

Composites were created using the script compJ.gs . Descriptor files were written manually.