Skip to contents

Observed hurricane track (lat, lon, timestamp) for center of storm Milton during 2024

Usage

data_milton

Format

## `data_milton` A data frame with 62 rows and 7 columns:

name

Character - Storm name given by the agency

iso_time

POSIXct - SO Time provided in Universal Time Coordinates (UTC). Format is YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss Most points are provided at 6 hour intervals.

lat

Numeric - Latitude in decimal degrees

lon

Numeric - Longitude in decimal degrees

wind_speed

Numeric - Maximum sustained wind speed in knots: 0 - 300 kts. (1-min. mean)

pressure

Numeric - Minimum sea level pressure, 850 - 1050 mb.

sshs

Numeric - Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale. The values are defined as follows: -5 = Unknown -4 = Post-tropical -3 = Miscellaneous disturbances -2 = Subtropical Tropical systems classified based on wind speeds -1 = Tropical depression (W<34) 0 = Tropical storm (34<W<64) 1 = Category 1 (64<=W<83) 2 = Category 2 (83<=W<96) 3 = Category 3 (96<=W<113) 4 = Category 4 (113<=W<137) 5 = Category 5 (W >= 137)