This data is a subset of the NOAA Atlantic hurricane database best track data, http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/#hurdat. The data includes the positions and attributes of 198 tropical storms, measured every six hours during the lifetime of a storm.
A tibble with 3482 observations and 14 variables:
name
Storm Name
year,month,day
Date of report
hour
Hour of report (in UTC)
lat,long
Location of storm center
status
Storm classification (Tropical Depression, Tropical Storm, or Hurricane)
category
Saffir-Simpson storm category (estimated from wind speed. -1 = Tropical Depression, 0 = Tropical Storm)
wind
storm's maximum sustained wind speed (in knots)
pressure
Air pressure at the storm's center (in millibars)
ts_diameter
Diameter of the area experiencing tropical storm strength winds (34 knots or above)
hu_diameter
Diameter of the area experiencing hurricane strength winds (64 knots or above)
See Also
The script to create the storms data set: https://github.com/tidyverse/dplyr/blob/master/data-raw/storms.R
Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.
