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PowderGraph is a visualization application to show how much snow has fallen monthly throughout the years in Lake Louise - Alberta, Canada.

• The app consists of a single page
• A user can select a year to view the total amount of snowfall and toggle to rain totals as well.

• Vanilla JavaScript for data sorting.
• D3.js for visualizing the data.
• HTML
• CSS

• Data was obtained from the Government of Canada Environment and Natural Resources Climate Data Website LINK
• Data was downloaded in csv file format using a Homebrew script for all available years that the weather station was in operation
• The data was parsed and statically available on the website

A user can select a year using the slider to view monthly snow fall totals and hover over each bar to view exact values.

A user can click the button to toggle between snow and rain fall totals.

  for year in `seq 2000 2005`;do for month in `seq 1 12`;do wget --content-disposition "http://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_data/bulk_data_e.html?format=csv&stationID=2409&Year=${year}&Month=${month}&Day=14&timeframe=3&submit= Download+Data" ;done;done

• The ability to search all weather stations in Canada and have the application automatically fetch the data so that it can be displayed within the graph.
• Adjust graph bar colors to change shading based on total snowfall for given month compared to average totals for the specified month for all years data has been recorded.