@worldwideview/wwv-plugin-hurricane-tracks

WorldWideView plugin — Historical hurricane/cyclone/tropical storm track points worldwide.

Usage

This package is part of the WorldWideView plugin ecosystem. It provides the following capabilities:

• ID: hurricane-tracks
• Category: Weather
• Format: static

Data Sources

Track points come from the NOAA IBTrACS (International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship), public domain:

IBTrACS is the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) sanctioned dataset of global tropical cyclone best track data. NOAA NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/international-best-track-archive-for-climate-stewardship-ibtracs/

Subset: North Atlantic basin (ibtracs.NA.list.v04r00.csv), seasons 2000+ with maximum intensity of Saffir-Simpson category 2 or higher (or equivalent WMO category when the USA SSH scales are absent). One point per 6-hour best-track position. Missing values (IBTrACS -999.0 placeholders) are dropped; category falls back to the WMO category when the USA Saffir-Simpson value is empty.

Installation

Typically installed via the WorldWideView Marketplace or discovered automatically. If installing manually in a Next.js setup:

npm install @worldwideview/wwv-plugin-hurricane-tracks

Architecture

This plugin adheres to the WorldWideView standard plugin structure. As a static plugin, it connects to the core Event Bus and renders map capabilities. The GeoJSON FeatureCollection is baked into data/data.json and raw-imported at runtime by an AutoStaticPlugin class (same pattern as wwv-plugin-data-centers).

Data Integrity

Run the fail-closed validator to check the data file:

node scripts/verify-data.mjs

Exits 0 on pass, 1 on any anomaly (FeatureCollection shape, Point geometries, coordinate ranges, required properties, duplicate ids).

Built for WorldWideView.