***  Data comes from here: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ibtracs/index.php?name=ib-v4-access

*** To run the code you need python3 and pip3
pip3 install matplotlib
pip3 install scipy

*** edit the range of years
YEARS = [1902, 2019]

For tropical storm peak strength percentages run:
python3 tropicalstorms.py

for rapid intensification run:
python3 rapid_intensification.py