get_storms

Returns storms and product link.

get_storms(years = format(Sys.Date(), "%Y"), basins = c("AL", "EP"))

Arguments

years	numeric or vector, four digits (%Y format)
basins	One or both of c("AL", "EP")

Format

A 4xN dataframe

Year

Numeric, four-digit year of the storm

Name

Character, name of storm mixed-case

Basin

AL (Atlantic) or EP (East Pacific)

Link

URL to storms' product pages

To disable the progress bar set option dplyr.show_progress to FALSE.

Source

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2016/

Value

Dataframe of storms.

Details

By default returns all storms for the current year. If no storms have developed will return an empty dataframe.

Examples

# Default. Get all storms, both basins, for last year.
if (FALSE) {
storms <- get_storms(year = 2016, basin = c("AL", "EP"))

# Get storms for two different years
storms.2010 <- get_storms(c(2010, 2015))

# Get storms for two consecutive years, Atlantic basin only
storms.al.2005 <- get_storms(2005:2007, basin = "AL")
}