Map Shows the Path of More Than 150 Years of Hurricanes Color-Coded by Intensity
- Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:49pm by
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Putting all the hurricanes and tropical storms since 1851 onto one map looks similar to a giant hurricane swirl itself.
Created by John Nelson with IDV User Experience, the map of all the storms is color-coded based on intensity from data collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(Image: John Nelson/IDV User Experience)
Here’s what Nelson had to say about the map as a whole:
A couple of things stood out to me about this data. 1) Hurricanes clearly abhor the equator and fling themselves away from the warm waters of their birth as quickly as they can. 2) Detection has skyrocketed since satellite technology but mostly since we started logging storms in the eastern hemisphere. Also the proportionality of storm severity looks to be getting more consistent year to year with the benefit of more data.
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Comments (68)
pooterskooter
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 5:25pmWe NEVER had this kind of weather until they invented the bow and arrow!
Report Post »sixtysix
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 7:11pmI think you need to go back to rock throwing. That took a lot of energy and who knows how much methane gas.
Report Post »blair152
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 4:34pmNice.
Report Post »erroneous
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 2:09pmi think hurricanes hate the east coast
Report Post »Necron99
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 3:10pmForgive my ignorance as reflected in such a question, but exactly how were we tracking and recording the path of hurricanes 150 years ago? Before satellites. Before radar. Before aircraft. Light bulbs hadn’t even been invented at that time. I’m just curious about how accurate such information could possibly be prior to the first satellites circa 1960.
Report Post »Pyronaught
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 7:54pmWe use the Myan calendar. They predicted all the hurricanes and mapped them out ahead of time.
Report Post »integrican
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 1:50pmWhere is the increase when cows started farting????
Report Post »Pyronaught
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 7:56pmThere is no recorded history of farting until after Taco Bell was created.
Report Post »StumpyJohnson
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 1:09pmWow, I wonder why it looks spiral? Other than the fact that the center of the perspective is over Antarctica. I believe every recurring weather or environmental phenomena presented in track form would appear much the same. Or does the earth rotation around it’s axis only have this affect on typhoons, hurricanes and other low pressure storm systems? (Since they are NOT called hurricanes west of the international date line.)
Report Post »StumpyJohnson
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 12:57pmHey JZS,
Report Post »Quick! Tell me everything you know about karst topography. What is it? Where is is prevalent? What created it? How long has it been around? What is it’s effect on the atmosphere? What can we humans do about it?
Go learn. Next question will concern sunspots, sun cycles and the history of their effect on earth’s environment. (Hint: The “little” ice age.)
avgconservative
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:49amI just love to sit back and watch those who consider themselves more intelligent than the other guy.
They bring issues to the forefront which “trump” the other guy, and claim it as science.
Then, they spend the rest of the time telling each other how bad the other guy’s science is, and how their own science is more credible.
This is fun.
Report Post »bum
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:11amWhy is it these GLOBAL WARMING morons are FANATICAL about carbon footprint, but could care less about deforestation?
Report Post »Truth4SureNuff
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 11:08amBecause they can tax a carbon footprint
Report Post »Anadara
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 12:14pmWater vapor is 400 times more potent than carbon dioxide is as a green house gas. Perhaps the greenies should be more concerned about the H2O foot print. …Or better yet, if they all hold their breath they could reduce thier own individual CO2 emissions, thereby saving the planet and sparing the rest of us a bunch of nonsense.
Report Post »listeninginVT
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 12:43pmI believe the saying goes, “follow the money”
Report Post »semihardrock
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:57amThese storms are ALL due to vehicle emissions, the decaying Ozone Layer and Global Warming
If 95% of the media and DNC would stop talking….I believe the storms will stop……
Report Post »Joyzee
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 8:57amThe Sun never say‘s to the Earth Hey’ you Owe me, Unless your a Liberal Sun..
Report Post »hugo65hsv
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 7:31amTo the environmentalist: no one gets out of Life Alive.. So quit living in fear, and trying to take the rest of us along with you..
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 12:45amLive in fl. seen alot , nothing new. Just be prepaired
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 6:32amBeen through two hurricanes in Bermuda (Emily and Dean), 2 tornadoes in Missouri, much prefer a hurricane. Wind blows really hard one way, there’s a calm, and then it blows really hard the other way. Tornadoes are too unpredictable.
Report Post »goahead.makemyday
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 1:26pmHow do you tell a natural Floridian from from the snowbirds? Answer: Show a hurricane heading to the state. While the snowbird starts running around crazy buying things up, the natural Floridian just says. “Eh, just another one. I need to remember to bring out the old plywood tomorrow.”
Report Post »totheRepublic14
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 10:36pmI blame global warming. If it can make baseballs go farther, it can certainly mess up the weather. (being sarcastic bye the way.)
Report Post »jzs
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 11:31pmYes, it’s true that the Earth is experiencing the most extreme climate events in history. Hottest month the continental US (not reported here)? Check. Most violent weather in history, including the number and size of hurricanes and tornadoes? Check. Worst droughts? Check. Record breaking temperatures across the US and world? Check.
Just because that’s what 99.9 percent of climate scientists have been predicting for years, you shouldn’t worry. This is a temporary thing caused by, uh, sunspots! Yeah, that’s it. That’s the ticket. It’s sunspots.
Humans simply can’t pollute the environment to the point that it effects anything, like climate change, pollution or whatever. Why do we even have the EPA and environmental regulations? Humans can’t harm the environment, certainly not enough to destroy habitats and block out the sun with pollution or poison our water supplies! God promised us!. The world’s too big and besides, and there’s this sunspot thing. Beyond that, it‘s God’s promise that He wouldn’t destroy the world again. There’s no way humans can override God. He gave us this world to do with whatever we wanted and there is nothing humans can do in pursuit of profits that could possibly be injurious to the health of God’s chosen creatures, like us Christians. There’s just that sunspot thing. Duh. Don’t worry!
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 11:46pmBack in the 70s we were all going freeze to death, now we are going to burn up. Hey JZS what was the average global temp in 1495? How about 2012 BC?
Report Post »HappyStretchedThin
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 1:27amJZS, as usual, needs to go back to all sources he claims to have read:
Report Post »1. God will destroy the earth again, just not by flood.
2. 100% of scientists believe in gravity, Newton’s laws, and the atomic theory of matter: when it’s a settled fact, we don’t worry about consensus anymore.
3. The US had record highs in July, and the arctic had cooler than normal temps, and you probably didn‘t check anywhere else on the planet when you pulled the insane assumption out of your hat that we’re all responsible for a nice hot summer.
4. Some of the US is experiencing drought. The Canadian plains are experiencing the wettest weather in a generation, and it’s not yet even close to the dust bowl even where it IS bad here in the US.
5. God gave humans stewardship with accountability, not a blank check to abuse His creation
6. Humans with more of their own money, have more means to clean up after themselves. The polluted countries are the poor ones (or have you never been outside the US to compare?). Your proposed solutions all backfire, and take away our means to clean up.
7. Anyone calling for an end to the EPA is also proposing law enforcement still prosecute all polluters -we drink the water too, silly.
8. The Blaze didn’t headline it, but Real News DID report on the rising temps, and recently: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/real-news-from-the-blaze-u-n-climate-change-activists-put-heat-on-u-s/
You gotta quit bringing your ‘B’ game, buddy ;-)
The-Monk
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 1:33amHi HappyStretchedThin,
Poor widdle JZS doesn’t have an “A” game; “B” is the best he can do. : )
Report Post »phrogdriver
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 8:25amMaybe JZ can tell us the exact moment in the the 4 billion year history of the planet that the climate stopped changing naturally.
Report Post »srpatterso
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 8:58am“…Yes, it’s true that the Earth is experiencing the most extreme climate events in history…”
It’s absolutely NOT true. Check out 1933, for instance.
But I know you won’t, since all your entire post did was repeat the worn-out canards of the “progressive” religion.
Report Post »totheRepublic14
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:03am@ JZS. I am not saying we shouldn’t protect the earth but Global Warming is not what we should be worried about. You are saying that this has been a hot year so that proves global warming. You are looking at the temperature here rather then the world as a whole. The world has always gotten hotter ,and it has always gotten colder. You are making wild assumptions based on your lack of knowledge of of the way the climate works. I know you were trying to make a point but 99.9 percent of scientist will NEVER agree on anything. If you want to stop being ignorant stop believing everything Wikipedia an Al Gore tells you.
Report Post »4truth2all
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:29amYo Monk:
A b?, you sure are a nice person.
Report Post »integrican
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:43amQ: Why aren’t these global warming alarmists going after the “Chem-Trail” debacle in a BIG way!!!! Especially the reports of the major increases of aluminum dust in ponds, lakes and soil. Come-on earthers, jump on that one.
A: Because it is not being done by private enterprise, but by our loving government who is trying to solve the droughts caused by global warming and, in typical fashion, are screwing things up even worse than if they just left it all alone!
I think maybe, they should have Elizabeth Warren do some dancing if they want it to rain!!!
Report Post »MrBigBillyB
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:01amFor example. They say this July was the hottest, breaking the previous record set in 1936. So that’s 76 years that the previous record stood. If they are blaming pollution and the Industrial Revolution (starting in 1820 and reaching its apex in 1870) why would temperatures be at it highest 60 years later, and then not be that high again for another 75 years? What did we do between 1936 and now that caused the weather to be cooler? In fact July 2009 was the COLDEST on record for 6 US states. (http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/2009-08-10-july-climate-report_N.htm)
And I thought the EPA was supposed to fix all this They have had almost 42 years to solve our pollution problems and according to the Global Warming folks, things are getting worse and worse. But of course if you don’t agree with them, you are “blind.” Never mind mind the data, just listen to them. Never mind that their records only go back about 120 years, they know it all the way back to the Jurassic period.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:10amHi Happy. Always eager to help broaden your horizons. To your points:
Report Post »1. I think God is supposed to destroy the Earth by fire. Hey, have you heard about the record heat waves, droughts and resulting wildfires in Europe, just like here? http://news.sky.com/story/974764/heatwave-alerts-as-europe-swelters
2. Sorry, Newton‘s theory was good but it’s been replaced, as has the atomic theory of matter.
3. See item 1. For that matter, read the news somewhere besides FOX.
4. Yes, climate change predicts that dry areas will become dryer, some wet areas wetter. When you warm the oceans (the extra CO2 is acidifying them too – another topic), you get more moisture in the air. That can mean flooding and record snowfalls.
5. That’s not what some of our congressmen think: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1328366/John-Shimkus-Global-warming-wont-destroy-planet-God-promised-Noah.html
6. So, is China a poor country? I’ve been there twice and the industrial areas the sky and sun are blotted out almost 365 days a year. Sorry, you can’t do much to clean up pollution. You have to prevent it.
7. Huh? Prosecute polluters under what law? The EPA makes those regulations. Who is going to prosecute them? Officials who get campaign money from them? You?
Lawrence7
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:30amJZS asks: “Why do we even have the EPA and environmental regulations? Humans can’t harm the environment, certainly not enough to destroy habitats and block out the sun with pollution or poison our water supplies!”
Original intent of the EPA was to protect us from poison industrial waste dumps. EPA is doing that, for sure. But the regulations have been so mis-interpreted over time that the EPA has become the government’s vehicle to protect us from everything, including natural climate change, and even from the Sun.
Report Post »HappyStretchedThin
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 2:21pm@JZS,
Report Post »It‘s hard for me not to snicker at someone who doesn’t believe that matter is composed of atoms, or that force equals mass times acceleration pretending to give me science lessons. And Bible lessons from someone who doesn’t believe it either.
Glad you got the fire part right, although 0.8 degrees C is hardly a worldwide fire, and flora and fauna have adapted to far worse in the past.
Glad you found a GOP Congressman who stands up for the Bible, too. Although you‘ve completely invented from whole cloth the implications of his belief that God’s going to be the one doing the planet destroying–that does NOT imply a blank check, but, as I said, accountable stewardship to God for those to whom the dominion over the earth was given. Bible believers know the earth is on loan to us for a period.
Newsflash, China’s GDP per capita is nowhere near that of the states, and although some cities flourish, other provinces languish in poverty. In any case, prevention or cleanup afterwards, the principle is the same–the costs come out of disposable income, and therefore taxing it out of everyone just means less prevention/cleanup gets done.
The biggest problem, though, is that you still seem to think Conservatives prefer to drink dirty water and breathe dirty air themselves. Not a very logical assumption.
Finally, law vs. regulation. Look it up. States fine, and prosecute polluters all the time, no need for unaccountable federal bureaucracies to do it.
jzs
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:28pmHi Happy. I don’t want to make you snicker further, but I think I understand the lack of communication we’re having. You’re not much of a science person, nor a person who understands environmental regulations, but that’s okay. Not many do I’ll admit.
100% of scientists agree that Newton’s “laws” are only approximations (i.e. “wrong” in black and white way you seem to think), and that reality is much better described by Einstein’s “theory” of gravity. And it’s not just an academic distinction. The GPS device you have in your car or phone would simply not work were the effects of Einstein’s theory not taken into effect. Because of the effects of Relativity on time, your GPS error would increase literally by miles every day. Sorry, all scientist recognize that Newton was close, but not good enough for today’s world.
Your “atomic theory of matter,” something proposed in Greek times? Sorry, that’s been replaced by quantum physics. We have no common ground there so I won’t comment further.
You’re also confused about the EPA. Your state has it’s own agency for environment protection, regualated and audited by the Federal EPA. They can have more, but not less restrictive regulations about environmental protection. And your city has the same, and they have to comply with state regulations.
That’s what keeps your water clean. Sadly, Republicans actually do try to trade off the quality of your drinking water so that their company can ma
Report Post »SpeckChaser
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:30pmHey Happy
I’m sure you know, but you can’t win a debate with GW/Flat-Earthers when their facts continue to evolve. The argument that needs to be made is if our choices are GW or the proposals to reduce it, then I will take GW.
The whole situation reminds me of my childhood. One kid always wanted to race everyone but he was the slowest kid in the neighborhood. What started as “I’ll race you to that tree” turned into I’ll race you to whatever he was next to when you where two steps from the tree. This case is no different.
What started as “Your children will not know what snow is” evolved into “GW is causing more severe snow,” and on and on.
What perplexes me is any given day JZS can be found accusing Glenn Beck of fear mongering, and then turn right around and say, “If you don’t give government complete control of every aspect of our lives Earth will be demolished.” Really? Come on now.
On a separate matter, enjoy JZS post while you can. If Romney wins it will be boring on this site with JZS withholding criticism for the liberally imposed 3 year 9 month, as of now, grace period for future presidents.
Report Post »PurrrpleMtnMajesty
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 10:01pmEl Roi….the Lord Who Watches over ALL
Report Post »ColoradoMaverick
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 9:43pmRecent non-governmental studies prove without a single doubt that despite all of the money our government spends each and every year on departments like NOAA, the annual predictions about the number and intensity of hurricanes are LESS than 50% accurate. It would be cheaper and MORE accurate to flip a coin. Go to NOAA’s website and check out the “global warming” propaganda that is on every page. We need to defund NOAA and eliminate it along with the IRS, the department of Education and about 75% of all other government departments. They are all a joke.
Report Post »Glenn in Virginia
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 11:13pmThey can’t even predict with any certainty the weather the day after tomorrow. Why in the world would anybody with two brain cells to rub together believe they can predict the weather a century from now?
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 11:46pmCause JZS only has one left.
Report Post »Dougsopinion
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 11:42amThe EPA? Isn’t that the group that threw a big fit over the tossing of salmon back and forth in Pikes place market in Seattle, claiming that it was harmful to the fish’s soul? Oh wait, that was PETA. I keep getting those two mixed up.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 9:35pmI’d like to see a hurricane path map that collated with the Earths Coriolis effect.
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 11:48pmAsk JZS to put one together for you, he knows the weather for the last 4.5 billion years.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 12:05am@mr.goodvibe
Good one! LOL
Yep, the one-eyed monster, J-Zak, knows all. : )
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 9:27pmWhich one is the Sept 8, 1900 hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas?
You know, the one that they never saw coming 112 years ago……
I don’t understand this statement;
“Created by John Nelson with IDV User Experience, the map of all the storms is color-coded based on intensity from data collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.”
How can this be true when, “NOAA was formed on October 3, 1970 by Richard Nixon”?
NOAA is only about 42 years old……
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_NOAA#Flag
Report Post »KingCanon
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:57pmThe one that wiped my place off the planet was a doozy!
Report Post »God Bless All That Have Been Affected.
daxbrady
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:51pmThose weather satellites did a good job in 1851
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:30pmStrange how they can lose the records of so many veterans, but maintaining weather history seems to be iron-clad.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:26pmOh I’m sure the tracking of hurricanes from 1851 to the first weather satellite in orbit are accurate – especially since with the onset of technology there hasn’t been……any misinformation or gauges placed in false locations to create self-fulfilled readings.
Report Post »Polarized America
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:36pmSailors keep excellent records, even before 1851 ..well at least the ones the SURVIVED
Report Post »inblack
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 9:52pmI can’t see anything – is that it?
Report Post »danyelle55
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:20pmIt’s cool that the map is centered over the southern pole so we can see the swirl pattern more clearly than if it were stretched out as it would be in traditional world map format, John Nelson, you have done it again! Beauty!
Report Post »ZAP
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:12pmThat map is as clear as mud…
Report Post »Socco
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:07pmIs it just me, or does that picture as a whole look like a big eye?
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:14pmAaaachhh! I see it too. The proverbial “Eye in the Sky!!!!
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:18pmtake a peek at the Gods eye nebula here (Helix Nebula)
https://www.google.com/search?q=gods+eye+nebula&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=F3x&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=fflb&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=SNMyUMy5K8_kiwKj3oHgAQ&ved=0CFAQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=581
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:24pmThe CBS eye?
Report Post »Socco
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 9:18pm@ MeteoricLimbo, that is awesome.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 9:20pmUpon second look… I see an Owls Eye. Cleaver of you to notice!
Report Post »4truth2all
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:40amIt is indeed interesting that even the path of hurricanes seem to have a pattern (design), and this design is used many places elsewhere …
Report Post »4truth2all
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:44amIn fact it almost looks like a hurricane itself. A storm that covers the entire planet ,,, an entire world in upheavel.
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:55pmQuick call Al Gore! It looks just like Man Bear Pig! I’m cereal
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:16pm@MeteoricLimbo
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:55pm
Quick call Al Gore! It looks just like Man Bear Pig! I’m cereal
Report Post »***
Could be Glenn’s “Octagod!” NOW HE HAS PROOF , WONDER IF HE’LL BELIEVE NOW?
mr.goodvibe
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 11:50pmEverybody please save water and the planet! Urinate outside, return that energy to earth so that father Gore may power himself.
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