Wx Hurricane Add-on

Craig Hunter
hunter-associates@cox.net
August 28, 2006

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Function: This add-on will load tropical storm / hurricane projections and advisories for the United States. Information is downloaded from the NWS National Hurricane Center.

The input setting format for this add-on is:

hurricane:year:region:storm
where hurricane is the add-on name, year is a two-digit year (for instance 06), region is either AT for the Atlantic ocean or EP for the eastern Pacific Ocean, and storm is the two digit storm number for the respective region (for instance 05).

For example, to load information for the 5th Atlantic storm of 2006 (Ernesto), specify:

hurricane:06:AT:05
Multiple instances of this add-on can be linked together as follows:

hurricane:06:AT:05+hurricane:06:EP:11
Note: This add-on is intended to retreive data for current active storms. If data is missing for the storm you have specified, it may have expired.

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Note: this add-on links to data provided by the National Hurricane Center: