<p>Once upon a time I seem to remember there being a plethora of sites with very graphical interactive tools for quickly searching Atlantic hurricane data by time range, locations impacted, and storm type and get quick answers.  Some I remember as being very intuitive, and offerings from tv stations, government sites, and independents.</p>

<p>These days I know of exactly one, <a href="https://coast.noaa.gov/hurricanes/" rel="noreferrer">https://coast.noaa.gov/hurricanes/</a>.  However I find this site to be difficult to comparably difficult to navigate in finding the location, filtering, and interpreting.  I believe NOAA once offered a top-notch option at <a href="http://hurricane.csc.noaa.gov/hurricanes/" rel="noreferrer">http://hurricane.csc.noaa.gov/hurricanes/</a>, but it's long gone, and I have trouble finding any others.  <a href="http://www.stormreportmap.com" rel="noreferrer">There's great such tools that have developed for severe weather</a>, and perhaps with the millions of sites out there, other good ones for hurricanes exist, and I just don't know it.</p>

<p>Even better would be if such a site also included other basins to boot.  But these days, even for the Atlantic, I usually just look through pages on like <a href="http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/" rel="noreferrer">Unisys Weather</a> or <a href="http://derecho.math.uwm.edu/models/archive/" rel="noreferrer">the archives</a> on <a href="http://derecho.math.uwm.edu/models/" rel="noreferrer">Clark Evans' model website</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_hurricane_season" rel="noreferrer">Wikipedia annual maps</a>.  But searching for "when is the last time a storm affected X" has proven surprisingly hard these days.  Any help to offer? </p>

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@gansub Takes a bit of work with the registration, but now that I worked through all that, and the "older" interface layout, which is reasonable enough, looks useful beyond that, absolutely.
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(Note that the Coast archive does include some other basins actually)
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The only other useful site I've found thus far is https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/tracker.  It's got fairly limited options really, no real search... but it is nicely simple to plot storms on a more dynamic map at least, and seems nicely lightweight (compared to the frustrating loading of the Coast site), plus a few extra basic plots on current storms.
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(Also of slight use to at least gauge the danger to areas is NHC's climatology page, particularly https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/climo/#returns)
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@gansub, I'm familiar with troPyCal (have followed some of the meteorologists involved for a while)... had not heard of ibtracs by name, but looks like the best track dataset?  Certainly sounds like you should make an answer of them (though they may be a bit more involved than being a site, they're useful nonetheless for those looking for such things)
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@gansub haha nope!  I had resorted in recent years (since the loss of Unisys data) to often going through advisories/NHC archive graphics to remind myself of the values over time for past storms.  So yeah, that's a beautiful beautiful website, having the easy tables and graphs... and throwing in things like satellite and wind radii just makes it better.  A bit odd it hasn't updated in a few months, but looks to be a fantastic resource in a very barren existence.
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One day we'll finally see people pull together all the data (sites like https://bmcnoldy.rsmas.miami.edu/tropics/radar/, https://web.uwm.edu/hurricane-models/models/archive/historical.html, the NHC TC report ob tables, etc).  In a nice, comfortable format for everyday folks.  One can dream!  Then again, given the plot of min SLP I saw in a tropycal post at your nudging, maybe a lot of that is finally finding its place there.  I'll have to explore that more too, thanks.
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Are there any other sites that allow users to search for historic hurricanes within a given area?
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# Are there any other sites that allow users to search for historic hurricanes within a given area?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-05-22)

Once upon a time I seem to remember there being a plethora of sites with very graphical interactive tools for quickly searching Atlantic hurricane data by time range, locations impacted, and storm type and get quick answers. Some I remember as being very intuitive, and offerings from tv stations, government sites, and independents.

These days I know of exactly one, <https://coast.noaa.gov/hurricanes/>. However I find this site to be difficult to comparably difficult to navigate in finding the location, filtering, and interpreting. I believe NOAA once offered a top-notch option at <http://hurricane.csc.noaa.gov/hurricanes/>, but it's long gone, and I have trouble finding any others. [There's great such tools that have developed for severe weather](http://www.stormreportmap.com), and perhaps with the millions of sites out there, other good ones for hurricanes exist, and I just don't know it.

Even better would be if such a site also included other basins to boot. But these days, even for the Atlantic, I usually just look through pages on like [Unisys Weather](http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/) or [the archives](http://derecho.math.uwm.edu/models/archive/) on [Clark Evans' model website](http://derecho.math.uwm.edu/models/) or [Wikipedia annual maps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_hurricane_season). But searching for "when is the last time a storm affected X" has proven surprisingly hard these days. Any help to offer?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: @gansub Takes a bit of work with the registration, but now that I worked through all that, and the "older" interface layout, which is reasonable enough, looks useful beyond that, absolutely.  
> **username_0**: (Note that the Coast archive does include some other basins actually)  
> **username_0**: The only other useful site I've found thus far is https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/tracker.  It's got fairly limited options really, no real search... but it is nicely simple to plot storms on a more dynamic map at least, and seems nicely lightweight (compared to the frustrating loading of the Coast site), plus a few extra basic plots on current storms.  
> **username_0**: (Also of slight use to at least gauge the danger to areas is NHC's climatology page, particularly https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/climo/#returns)  
> **username_0**: @gansub, I'm familiar with troPyCal (have followed some of the meteorologists involved for a while)... had not heard of ibtracs by name, but looks like the best track dataset?  Certainly sounds like you should make an answer of them (though they may be a bit more involved than being a site, they're useful nonetheless for those looking for such things)  
> **username_0**: @gansub haha nope!  I had resorted in recent years (since the loss of Unisys data) to often going through advisories/NHC archive graphics to remind myself of the values over time for past storms.  So yeah, that's a beautiful beautiful website, having the easy tables and graphs... and throwing in things like satellite and wind radii just makes it better.  A bit odd it hasn't updated in a few months, but looks to be a fantastic resource in a very barren existence.  
> **username_0**: One day we'll finally see people pull together all the data (sites like https://bmcnoldy.rsmas.miami.edu/tropics/radar/, https://web.uwm.edu/hurricane-models/models/archive/historical.html, the NHC TC report ob tables, etc).  In a nice, comfortable format for everyday folks.  One can dream!  Then again, given the plot of min SLP I saw in a tropycal post at your nudging, maybe a lot of that is finally finding its place there.  I'll have to explore that more too, thanks.  

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