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get_storms

Source: R/get_storms.R
get_storms.Rd

Returns storms and product link.

Usage

get_storms(years = format(Sys.Date(), "%Y"), basins = 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/

Arguments

years

numeric or vector, four digits (%Y format)

basins

One or both of c("AL", "EP")

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")
}