How come, ibtracs doesn't map the winter storms that pummelled Ireland, UK, Portugal, Morocco?
I cycled through the most recent 30 listed storms (in "time") and also checked the txt file for their names, Kristin, Leonardo, Marta, Chandra. They're not there. Does ibtracs exclude European storms altogether? Because... our national(ist) meteorological services don't want to participate in the "international best-track-archive for climate stewardship"?
Very odd.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/international-best-track-archive-for-climate-stewardship-ibtracs/v04r01/access/netcdf/

GHCN-d is still unusable for stations outside USA-affiliated countries.
So I don't know how to get observation data to play with. Dang.

#ibtracs #GHCN #NOAA #NCEI

FYI

I used to consult #Hurdat2 as database for Atlantic hurricanes.
Importing / updating data into spreadsheets is rather time consuming. And I wasn't able to satisfyingly answer whatever questions I was trying to pursue.

Now switched to #ibtracs , international best storm tracks https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/international-best-track-archive

Advantages:
*It's near real-time instead of 2 years old.
*Comes with netCDF where each storm track is mapped and can be exported as image using NASA's Panoply app https://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/ .
*Visual inspection and sorting of track pictures is a quick and not-dirty way to answer my most pressing question: are northward-moving hurricanes increasing? Answer: no.
*Appears to have all the Hurdat2- information, but data format provided in separate CSV files is simpler.
*Covers all ocean basins in same data formats, also as netCDF.