Here's an XKCD by Randall Munroe that is in keeping with the recent round of storms. The U.S. had it's snowstorms, but Australia had a monster of a cyclone at the same time. A hurricane map like this one would be fun.
At this actual webcomic, hovering over the image reveals this additional message in the "title-text":
I'd like to see more damage assessments for hurricanes hitting New York and flooding Manhattan -- something like the 1938 Long Island Express, but aimed a bit more to the west. It's just a matter of time.
If you want a map showing all of the hurricane paths each year, this site is pretty great for that:
...although it missed the freaky one that hit Brazil a few years ago. Brazil doesn't get hurricanes because there's just not enough ocean between it and Africa to give such storms time to form. But a few years ago brazil got a full-fledged hurricane for the first time ever... well the first time it was ever called a hurricane. There's a small chance that maybe some of the storms described hundreds of years ago might have been hurricanes, but even those descriptions don't seem to fit the bill. It was only Catagory 1, but still.
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