How to Make this Crazy Map of Hurricanes since 1851
If you'd like to follow along, download the data and ArcGIS Pro style here: https://nation.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=8f66474f59104d078161768925046d16
Here is all the text used in the map...
title and subtitle:
HURRICANES SINCE 1851
Classified by the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale; Data sourced from the NOAA Centers for Environmental Information
timeline annotations:
Historical hurricanes have been meticulously estimated and reconstructed from accounts in the historical record.
Trans-oceanic air travel and active hurricane hunting in the 1940s contributed to a dramatic rise in the number of recorded storms.
Satellite reconnaissance beginning in the 1960s provided the first broad-scale vantage of Earth, dramatically improving identification and accuracy.
Geosynchronous satellites, beginning around the early 1970s through today, provide continuous atmospheric observations —and with it, continuity and precision.
data source:
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ibtracs/index.php?name=ib-v4-access
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