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Does anyone know a source of historical tropical storms that have made landfall on the Yucatan Peninsula. Obviously, the longer the record the better, but even if I can find reliable data over the last couple of decades, it would help.

Thanks.

Steve

azskyman wrote:Does anyone know a source of historical tropical storms that have made landfall on the Yucatan Peninsula. Obviously, the longer the record the better, but even if I can find reliable data over the last couple of decades, it would help.

Thanks.

Steve

As far as just the data, you can search the hurricane database best track data in text form from 1851-1987:
ftp://rammftp.cira.colostate.edu/demari ... oradii.txt

And from 1988-present:
ftp://rammftp.cira.colostate.edu/demari ... k_atlc.txt

For graphics, I use either Unisys:
http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atlantic/index.html

Or the Coastal Services Center plotter. You can select a location on the Yucatan and search all years since 1851 for any storm type (TS or Cat 1-5) in any month and get a nice plot.

http://maps.csc.noaa.gov/hurricanes/viewer.html

For example, I went to the interface and chose "Place Name", Mexico, and Cozumel. Then I selected all Cat 3-4-5 hurricanes in August passing within 100nm of Cozumel and got: