On-line (interactive) Hurricane Intro Lesson

The 2006 Atlantic Tropical Season - Advisories of major storms in .xls format. Updated 09/06/2006


Sample of what you can do with advisory data


The graph below is a summary of all the advisories of the 2000 Atlantic tropical season. Nothing surprising, but it illustrates the relationship nicely.




Data from past tropical seasons (with some charts) in Excel format:

Hurricane Bonnie tracking details (1998). This data is necessary for the "Hurricane Plotting lab" below.
Hurricane Tracking Charts


Hurricane Tracking Lab .pdf , .doc
Bonnie tracking info in MS Excel format. (useful if you're encouraging kids to use spreadsheets for graphs)

Archived tracking details are also available from Unisys.

Hurricane Georges ('98) Isobar Lab .pdf , .doc
Feel free to edit these labs and to pass them around (just keep my name on them!). I welcome any comments/suggestions for improvements.

If you experience trouble, e-mail me at steve.kluge@gmail.com

Steve Kluge