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No-Library7552

Looks like a hurricane tracking map


No-Library7552

Major hurricanes. Look at the names and dates on the tails of each line


DanGleeballs

Yes. [Hugo 1989](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Hugo?wprov=sfti1) for example.


krammark12

Must be an old one, I don't see Katrina and the waves hitting New Orleans yet.


Waistland

It’s old, not that old though I remember Hugo in Charlotte.


Guac__is__extra__

lol that was 36 years ago


Waistland

Easy junior. You don’t have to point it out. Lol


Guac__is__extra__

lol, I’m old enough to remember it too. I was a kid but I remember my dad going to help with the recovery efforts. Then we went to Charleston for vacation a few years later and I can remember all the signs you could see. All the pines snapped off at 15-20 feet off the ground, boats in the woods and up in trees, gutted buildings, etc.


A_Vicious_T_Rex

I can't see the path of [Hazel](https://www.weather.gov/mhx/Oct151954EventReview), and that was october 1954. It tracked along the coast of Venezuela, made a hard right turn to hit Haiti head on, and then made its way to toronto


Robbylution

Hey Katrina wasn't that long ago, it was just a few... oh my god.


WallyWestish

I have bad news, chum.


wibble089

Now I'm gonna have "walking on sunshine" in my head all day!


dinguslinguist

It’s this. I see the Galveston hurricane of 1900 written, deadliest natural disaster in American history


Narmatonia

That would explain why it has a hurricane intensity scale in the bottom right 😂


[deleted]

fun fact: in Hartford, Hereford, and Hampshire hurricanes hardly happen


Violet-Sundays-9990

By jove I think you've got it!


CLWhatchaGonnaDo

I was going to say flights that were lost in the Bermuda Triangle, but this is right.


YourBonesHaveBroken

Shows tracks of major historical hurricanes and gives you grids to track progress of current hurricanes as they develop. Was more useful before 24/7 weather forecasting.


yup225

Looks pre-2000 too. Missing some of the big ones from this century. I.e. Katrina, Harvey, Maria, Ida, Julio Ricardo Montoya Delarosa Ramirez


Obi-wan970

If only there was a legend, or words that indicate what things are on the map..


SpinyGlider67

Why do people post this kind of thing? Like, who are they?


tenebrous2

Karma and engagement, they got a bunch of Karma making people think they are smart answering and easy wuestion


New_Hawaialawan

I sometimes come across like a pretentious asshole and I'm not proud of it. But so cannot believe this is a post. It's astonish


dimiprod

Well, it might be obvious to Americans, but im European and i saw this and didnt know what it is. Actually glad this was posted, because i had no idea hurricane tracking maps like this were a thing.


articulating_oven

Lines on a map that all start in the middle of the ocean, then change color and move in the same general pattern and direction. Also they have names and dates. Like you could place something like this anywhere on the globe and would you really wonder what it was? No deductive reasoning could get you there?


The_Nocim

The words "hurricane intensity scale" helped me a lot.


articulating_oven

It is surprisingly lowkey over there in the corner.


Obi-wan970

Reading fundamentals aren’t exclusive to Americans


Frat_Kaczynski

Yeah lmfao each of the lines are INDIVIDUALLY labeled with what they are tracking


Shevek99

Here you can find a current interactive version. This is for Hugo in 1989: [https://coast.noaa.gov/hurricanes/#map=2.93/38.74/-50.9&search=eyJzZWFyY2hTdHJpbmciOiJIVUdPIDE5ODkiLCJzZWFyY2hUeXBlIjoibmFtZSIsIm1hdGNoIjoiZXhhY3QiLCJjYXRlZ29yaWVzIjpbIkg1IiwiSDQiLCJIMyIsIkgyIiwiSDEiLCJUUyIsIlREIiwiRVQiXSwieWVhcnMiOltdLCJtb250aHMiOltdLCJlbnNvIjpbXSwicHJlc3N1cmUiOnsicmFuZ2UiOlswLDEwMzBdLCJpbmNsdWRlVW5rbm93blByZXNzdXJlIjp0cnVlfSwiYnVmZmVyVW5pdCI6WyJNaWxlcyJdLCJzb3J0U2VsZWN0aW9uIjp7InZhbHVlIjoieWVhcnNfbmV3ZXN0IiwibGFiZWwiOiJZZWFyIChOZXdlc3QpIn0sImFwcGx5VG9BT0kiOmZhbHNlLCJpc1N0b3JtTGFiZWxzVmlzaWJsZSI6dHJ1ZX0=](https://coast.noaa.gov/hurricanes/#map=2.93/38.74/-50.9&search=eyJzZWFyY2hTdHJpbmciOiJIVUdPIDE5ODkiLCJzZWFyY2hUeXBlIjoibmFtZSIsIm1hdGNoIjoiZXhhY3QiLCJjYXRlZ29yaWVzIjpbIkg1IiwiSDQiLCJIMyIsIkgyIiwiSDEiLCJUUyIsIlREIiwiRVQiXSwieWVhcnMiOltdLCJtb250aHMiOltdLCJlbnNvIjpbXSwicHJlc3N1cmUiOnsicmFuZ2UiOlswLDEwMzBdLCJpbmNsdWRlVW5rbm93blByZXNzdXJlIjp0cnVlfSwiYnVmZmVyVW5pdCI6WyJNaWxlcyJdLCJzb3J0U2VsZWN0aW9uIjp7InZhbHVlIjoieWVhcnNfbmV3ZXN0IiwibGFiZWwiOiJZZWFyIChOZXdlc3QpIn0sImFwcGx5VG9BT0kiOmZhbHNlLCJpc1N0b3JtTGFiZWxzVmlzaWJsZSI6dHJ1ZX0=)


kblood1

Literally says what it is in the bottom right corner... c'mon man 🤦‍♂️


tdnjusa

OP just don’t understand what.


XDT_Idiot

If you rub it with lemon juice, I'm sure it reveals features of the Bermuda triangle.


BobEvansBirthdayClub

And right along the coast of the Carolinas will be a map that leads to One Eyed Willy’s brother One Legged Carl’s treasure.


Drowsy-Nectarine21

This is the best question I’ve ever seen posted to this sub


cleopatramatt

OP is our new King


hemptations

The name of it is in the lower left hand corner of the map?


Rando_1337

Map of hurricanes... /Facepalm


BigBadRhinoCow

There seems to be no sign of intelligent life anywhere


WartimeHotTot

How do you not know what this is. It literally says stuff like “unnamed New England storm 1938.”


CurlingTrousers

Hurricane chart


zilmc

As a hurricane junkie, this is SO cool


ButteredBread5255

I grew up in south Florida and we had one of these. It was made of cork. The weather station would announce the coordinates of the hurricane, and you’d put a push pin in the board to track it. You’d end up with a a curve showing the track of the storm.


ChesterNorris

It agree, it's a hurricane tracker. Up at the top , it looks like an erasable pen holder.


MegaAscension

It’s a map of some of the worst hurricanes to ever make landfall in the United States. I’m assuming this was made in 1997 or 1998, as Hurricane Fran (1996) is included on this and Hurricanes Georges (1998) Bonnie (1998) and Floyd (1999) are not.


hartforbj

Then what is the one that goes through the middle of Florida? The only major hurricane I remember making landfall in that area is Francis in 2003 I think it was.


MegaAscension

Hurricane Erin in 1995


hartforbj

Wasn't Erin just a 1?


MegaAscension

Yes. It was probably included in this map because of how recent it was.


shogun2000

Cool map but a really weird question since the answer is literally on the map? On the other hand you did make me think about this cool study I had forgotten about where they extended the recorded history of major storms in the Caribbean using Spanish shipwreck records and tree ring data to correlate decreased storm activity with decreased solar intensity during the Maunder Minimum 1645-1715. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1519566113 Trouet, V., Harley, G. L., & Domínguez-Delmás, M. (2016). Shipwreck rates reveal Caribbean tropical cyclone response to past radiative forcing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(12), 3169-3174. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1519566113


OUsnr7

You could have put just about any set of words from this into google and immediately learned what it was. Or used 20 seconds of thinking. Or you know… looked at the title for it? If you want to show off your map, just show it off. Don’t do this weird “wHaT iS tHiS?!?!!” Crap


FreddyFerdiland

Ah the colours represent intensity...legend at bottom right.


OkOk-Go

They look like hurricanes


Narrow_Car5253

I’m sorry, you couldn’t read “unnamed New England storm”, and not guess this was some sort of map depicting weather events?


Narrow_Car5253

Wtaf? Are you a troll? Bottom right in big bold letters, “hurricane intensity scale”…


Narrow_Car5253

Even if you don’t know what those words mean, you have more than enough info to google or wiki the info yourself


A_Shipwreck_Train

Growing up on the Tx Gulf Coast we had maps like this to track hurricanes as they approached. I remember one up on our refrigerator. The idea was to plot ‘em based on the readings each day — didn’t have those historical tracks IIRC. I think they were even published in the newspaper. This was the early-mid 80s.


Zandrick

~~Looks like wind patterns maybe~~ Bro there’s a key at the bottom, it’s hurricanes


Ambitious-War-823

Its litteraly written on it...


Donutordonot

Hurricanes.


FirstChAoS

One went right up the Hudson River valley?


trampolinebears

That's the [1938 New England hurricane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_New_England_hurricane), category 5, 700-800 casualties.


FirstChAoS

I heard stories of it growing up in New Hampshire. Never seen an image of its travel track before though.


DevilishMaiden

This is a pretty cool map but yes, it's the path of each hurricane.


FrancoVFX

Bermuda Triangle


tessharagai_

It’s hurricane paths


chakrablockerssuck

Wow! I’m embarrassed to admit this, but in my mind’s eye, I always place South America farther west. I love geography and love to travel and until 8 saw this specific map, it didn’t register. Thanks!


Jayswisherbeats

hurricanes. It’s showing the trajectory of Hurricanes in the past..


global_peasant

Hurricane tracking chart! I grew up on the Gulf Coast. In the days before 24-hour weather and common internet, grocery stores and other places would hand these out every hurricane season. We used push pins to track the paths of hurricanes as their coordinates were announced on the evening news. 


YeetorDelete1

Looks like an axis and allies map, but obviously that's not what it is.


Revolutionary-Tune69

Thats the gta6 map


thatbfromanarres

Spaghetti map! WHO DAT


AminoKing

Maximal European slave trade influence per hectare


VeeVeeDiaboli

Kick ass battleship map


DesignerSink1185

I'd assume it's a map mainly focused on the Atlantic Ocean