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As a programmer and meteorology enthusiast, I'd love to be able to get latitude/longitude of tropical storms/hurricanes (specifically in the Atlantic). Does anyone know of websites that can provide information regarding tropical activity? I looked at the NWS's API (http://graphical.weather.gov/xml/), but it doesn't seem to give such data.

RoyalPotato
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NOAA's Hurricane Center has current gis as well as archived hurricane data

albert
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Wunderground has a quite extensive hurricane archive (since 1851), unfortunately they are a commercial organisation, so you'll probably have to pay for API integration with their historic data. A webpage of the data is here:
https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/hurrarchive.asp

You can also delve somewhat deeper into the global weather datasets, an international effort to find all the data somewhat more easily:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ibtracs/index.php

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  • Unfortunately, wunderground is out of the question due to the commercial-ness. However, I think I should investigate the noaa ibtracs solution. Thanks! – RoyalPotato Jun 02 '16 at 19:02