Table 1 Basic statistics of weather variables at the four stations in Puerto Rico.

From: Potential influence of temperature and precipitation on preterm birth rate in Puerto Rico

Region

Variable

Mean

Median

Min

Max

Std

Mayagüez

rain

96.3

75.7

0

392

81.8

Ponce

rain

83.7

58.6

0

594.9

86.7

San Juan

rain

128.8

117.6

0

471.5

78.7

Mayagüez

DP10

1

1

0

7

1.3

Ponce

DP10

0.8

0

1

8

1.2

San Juan

DP10

1.1

1

0

6

1.2

Mayagüez

TAVG

26.1

26.1

23.1

29.3

1.5

Ponce

TAVG

26.6

26.8

23.1

28.9

1.3

San Juan

TAVG

27

27.2

24

29.8

1.4

Mayagüez

DX90

9.1

5

0

31

9.9

Ponce

DX90

17.3

19

0

31

10.6

San Juan

DX90

5.5

3

0

30

6.3

Mayagüez

storm

0.4

0

0

8

1.2

Ponce

storm

0.3

0

0

6

0.9

San Juan

storm

0.8

0

0

8

1.7

Mayagüez

flood

0.6

0

0

6

1.2

Ponce

flood

0.4

0

0

8

1.2

San Juan

flood

1.1

0

0

8

1.7

Mayagüez

PTB

17.5

17.5

8.6

25.1

2.8

Ponce

PTB

16.8

16.5

8.3

26.0

3.9

San Juan

PTB

17.8

18.1

10.0

24.6

3.3

Puerto Rico

PTB

15.8

16.2

10.6

20.8

2.4

  1. Note: rain: monthly rain intensity (mm); DP10: number of days
  2. with >=25.4 mm rain in the month; TAVG: monthly average
  3. temperature; DX90: number of days with >=32.2 °C in the month;
  4. storm and flood: count of events in a month. Min, Max and Std
  5. stand for minimum, maximum and standard deviation, respectively.