With the Atlantic hurricane season about to kick back into gear , plenty arewonderinghow this year ’s crop of storm with disarmingly mundane names will equate to last year ’s bloodcurdling time of year . This map goes even further , read the past 170 hurricane seasons . It ’s beautiful and humbling , all at once .
TheVisualization Lab at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationposted this young map on Friday , charting 11,967 tropic cyclone that have occurred on Earth since the NOAA began keeping a record in 1842 . Back then , data aggregation was far less authentic , coming from ships and lighthouses all over the Earth rather than satellites . So this function is belike lose hundreds of hurricanes that were never noticed ( or reported ) . “ Geostationary orbiter , such as NOAA ’s GOES , revolutionise the ability of meteorologists to track cyclone , ” the map - Jehovah explain . “ Not a undivided storm is escape as these eyes in the sky cater consistent scan of the globe every few minute . ”
Overlaid on a dingy background , you may understandably see pattern emerge from the slack of ashen lines . For example , the bloodless streak on the Atlantic seaside shows how frequently the Outer Banks and New England get battered by storm careening over from Africa ’s warm waters :
But for a sincerely sobering comparison , check out the other side of the world — where cyclone time of year never end :
It ’s a beautiful visualisation , but nonetheless , allow ’s all cross our fingers that this time of year wo n’t add many more lines to the function . [ The Atlantic Cities ]
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