Atlantic Hurricanes 1851-2023 Dataset

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atlantichurricanes18512023.csv

Description

Data about Atlantic Ocean hurricanes from 1851 to 2023. The Atlantic hurricane season is roughly from June through November. Tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic are called hurricanes, tropical storms, or tropical depressions.

Variables

• Year: calendar year
• Named: number of named storms
• Hurricanes: number of hurricanes
• Major: number of major hurricanes (Category 3 and higher)

Rows: 173
Columns: 4
$ Year       <dbl> 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860,…
$ Named      <dbl> 6, 5, 8, 5, 5, 6, 4, 6, 8, 7, 8, 6, 9, 5, 7, 7, 9, 4, 10, 1…
$ Hurricanes <dbl> 3, 5, 4, 3, 4, 4, 3, 6, 7, 6, 6, 3, 5, 3, 3, 6, 7, 3, 7, 10…
$ Major      <dbl> 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 2,…

# A tibble: 6 × 4
   Year Named Hurricanes Major
  <dbl> <dbl>      <dbl> <dbl>
1  1851     6          3     1
2  1852     5          5     1
3  1853     8          4     2
4  1854     5          3     1
5  1855     5          4     1
6  1856     6          4     2

# A tibble: 6 × 4
   Year Named Hurricanes Major
  <dbl> <dbl>      <dbl> <dbl>
1  2018    15          8     2
2  2019    18          6     3
3  2020    30         14     7
4  2021    21          7     4
5  2022    16          8     2
6  2023    20          7     3

References

Source: StatCrunch public datasets

Landsea, Chris and Blake, Eric. (June 30, 2021). “Was 2020 a Record-Breaking Hurricane Season? Yes, But…” Inside the Eye, the Offical Blog of the National Hurricane Center.

NOAA News Release (November 30, 2021): Active 2021 Atlantic hurricane season officially ends

NOAA News Release (November 29, 2022): Damaging 2022 Atlantic hurricane season draws to a close

NOAA News Release (November 28, 2023): 2023 Atlantic hurricane season ranks 4th for most-named storms in a year

Wikipedia 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season

Wikipedia 2023 Atlantic Hurricane Season

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