Archives Atlas

Historical weather, past storms, and climatology — for planning, learning, and post-mortems.

Reanalyses (the gold standard for historical weather)

NOAA/NCEP reanalyses NCEP/NCAR R1, 20CR, ERA5 interfaces ERA5 (ECMWF) Hourly since 1940, 0.25°, best available NARR North American Regional Reanalysis

Historical surface analyses

OPC past products Archived surface analyses and progs (recent years) WPC surface analysis archive North America, back to 2001 NOAA Central Library Portal to many NOAA archives

Tropical cyclone history

NHC storm archives Best-track + advisory history per storm NOAA Historical Hurricane Tracks Interactive map of every named storm IBTrACS Global best-track database

Buoy archives (NDBC)

NDBC historical data Per-station annual files back decades

Useful for route planning: pull one buoy's June records for the last 10 years and see how often winds exceed 20 kt in your window.