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Unisys Hurricane Data?
Does the Unisys hurricane track archive still exist? I can't seem to find it anymore, and just get some website that I'm not sure is about weather at all.
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Re: Unisys Hurricane Data?
AnnularCane wrote:Does the Unisys hurricane track archive still exist? I can't seem to find it anymore, and just get some website that I'm not sure is about weather at all.
I don't think so, unfortunately
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Re: Unisys Hurricane Data?
From their new website, it appears you can BUY it from them. If you're mainly concerned about the Atlantic basin, then the Hurricane Research Division has a website with lots of data:
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/Data_Storm.html
Here are the track maps from 1851:
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/DataByYearandStorm.html
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/Data_Storm.html
Here are the track maps from 1851:
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/DataByYearandStorm.html
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Re: Unisys Hurricane Data?
Thanks wxman57. Every once in a while I want to see the EPAC too, but mainly the Atlantic, so I guess this will do well enough!
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Re: Unisys Hurricane Data?
Wikipedia is also a great resource if you wish to view tropical cyclone tracks. It is, in my opinion, way better than anything Unisys offered.
Pacific Hurricane Seasons
Atlantic Hurricane Seasons
Pacific Hurricane Seasons
Atlantic Hurricane Seasons
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Re: Unisys Hurricane Data?
I found this site it automatically plots named storms and at the bottom of the page the tract coordinates are listed and can be captured.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/tracker
https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/tracker
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Re: Unisys Hurricane Data?
The NOAA Office of Coastal Management maintains a global track archive: https://coast.noaa.gov/hurricanes/ Clicking on storm tracks or search query results allows you to view basic time, pressure, and wind information. Search results can also be filtered by location, time of year, strength, and basin.
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Re: Unisys Hurricane Data?
http://50.206.172.193/hurricane/index.php
Archive the entire database for offline viewing while you still can!! I did a second Google search and found the IP address version of the old hurricane section of Unisys. Its "snapshot" is at July 30 2018 so nothing is on there past that.
I wanted to check some Unisys hurricane maps so I found the same as the OP and realized yet another of my go-to sites have been wrecked. Obviously there are 1000 sources to getting seasonal and TC track maps online but Unisys has always had the best format and had low-resource pages that were bloat-free. It was easy to compare and browse through quickly. When I thought it was gone I was kicking myself for not archiving it, now I have a second chance.
When I was redirected on Unisys to their front-end weather page I was going to ask the same thing right on here and when I googled Unisys hurricane maps this thread was the 3rd result . I'm not too surprised they turfed it with all the glitches and security issues but the charm of the misspellings of legacy hurricanes and the "delays" always made for some chuckles. I seem to get a whole lot more info at a glance than looking at a NOAA, Wiki, or Accu hurricane map.
What exactly would you get? I want the mapper code and layers so I can use it myself and enter the HURDAT data into it. I've seen some better geo maps that had a dark BG that I would rather use with the colour table of Unisys TC categories.
Archive the entire database for offline viewing while you still can!! I did a second Google search and found the IP address version of the old hurricane section of Unisys. Its "snapshot" is at July 30 2018 so nothing is on there past that.
I wanted to check some Unisys hurricane maps so I found the same as the OP and realized yet another of my go-to sites have been wrecked. Obviously there are 1000 sources to getting seasonal and TC track maps online but Unisys has always had the best format and had low-resource pages that were bloat-free. It was easy to compare and browse through quickly. When I thought it was gone I was kicking myself for not archiving it, now I have a second chance.
When I was redirected on Unisys to their front-end weather page I was going to ask the same thing right on here and when I googled Unisys hurricane maps this thread was the 3rd result . I'm not too surprised they turfed it with all the glitches and security issues but the charm of the misspellings of legacy hurricanes and the "delays" always made for some chuckles. I seem to get a whole lot more info at a glance than looking at a NOAA, Wiki, or Accu hurricane map.
wxman57 wrote:From their new website, it appears you can BUY it from them.
What exactly would you get? I want the mapper code and layers so I can use it myself and enter the HURDAT data into it. I've seen some better geo maps that had a dark BG that I would rather use with the colour table of Unisys TC categories.
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Re: Unisys Hurricane Data?
Cyclenall wrote:http://50.206.172.193/hurricane/index.php
Archive the entire database for offline viewing while you still can!! I did a second Google search and found the IP address version of the old hurricane section of Unisys. Its "snapshot" is at July 30 2018 so nothing is on there past that.
I wanted to check some Unisys hurricane maps so I found the same as the OP and realized yet another of my go-to sites have been wrecked. Obviously there are 1000 sources to getting seasonal and TC track maps online but Unisys has always had the best format and had low-resource pages that were bloat-free. It was easy to compare and browse through quickly. When I thought it was gone I was kicking myself for not archiving it, now I have a second chance.
When I was redirected on Unisys to their front-end weather page I was going to ask the same thing right on here and when I googled Unisys hurricane maps this thread was the 3rd result . I'm not too surprised they turfed it with all the glitches and security issues but the charm of the misspellings of legacy hurricanes and the "delays" always made for some chuckles. I seem to get a whole lot more info at a glance than looking at a NOAA, Wiki, or Accu hurricane map.wxman57 wrote:From their new website, it appears you can BUY it from them.
What exactly would you get? I want the mapper code and layers so I can use it myself and enter the HURDAT data into it. I've seen some better geo maps that had a dark BG that I would rather use with the colour table of Unisys TC categories.
Nice find! I put it the web archive, but haven't added the links yet. I will do that.
Page here:
http://web.archive.org/web/201906130037 ... /index.php
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NotSparta wrote:Nice find! I put it the web archive, but haven't added the links yet. I will do that.
Page here:
http://web.archive.org/web/201906130037 ... /index.php
Nice, I was going to put it on there too but I haven't looked into how the uploading works and I don't have an account yet. Do you have to manually select the links to archive or is there a script for exceptions?
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Cyclenall wrote:NotSparta wrote:Nice find! I put it the web archive, but haven't added the links yet. I will do that.
Page here:
http://web.archive.org/web/201906130037 ... /index.php
Nice, I was going to put it on there too but I haven't looked into how the uploading works and I don't have an account yet. Do you have to manually select the links to archive or is there a script for exceptions?
You don't need an account. Just go to the bottom of the page, paste a link, and wait for it to archive that page.
Unfortunately it doesn't also archive the links in the page so I had to do some of those on my own
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Re: Unisys Hurricane Data?
Since the IP address copy of the site went offline in October 2019, I was forced to use webarchive.org to find all their copies of the maps. After a couple weeks of scripting and downloading, I think I did it.
This is Atlantic only and only contains the GIFs and DAT files, no yearly summary HTML files yet, I'll work on that later.
http://www.weatherwatchers.org/wxmaps/unisys/hurricane
This is Atlantic only and only contains the GIFs and DAT files, no yearly summary HTML files yet, I'll work on that later.
http://www.weatherwatchers.org/wxmaps/unisys/hurricane
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Re: Unisys Hurricane Data?
accuweather wrote:Since the IP address copy of the site went offline in October 2019, I was forced to use webarchive.org to find all their copies of the maps. After a couple weeks of scripting and downloading, I think I did it.
This is Atlantic only and only contains the GIFs and DAT files, no yearly summary HTML files yet, I'll work on that later.
http://www.weatherwatchers.org/wxmaps/unisys/hurricane
Wow, thanks. I noticed the site wasn't working just the other day but I was hoping it was just a temporary thing.
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1900hurricane wrote:Wikipedia is also a great resource if you wish to view tropical cyclone tracks. It is, in my opinion, way better than anything Unisys offered.
Pacific Hurricane Seasons
Atlantic Hurricane Seasons
The Wikipedia is good for information, but I think their tracks maps are poor. Unisys had much clearer tracks thanks to having thick solid lines on a black background, and very clear colour differences between the storm categories.
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Re: Unisys Hurricane Data?
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ibtracs/index ... -v4-access
I found this it is the entire hurricane database in the different basins.
I found this it is the entire hurricane database in the different basins.
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