Atlantic air traffic

Here's a artfully rendered video by air traffic control service NATS of air traffic over the North Atlantic:
North Atlantic Skies from NATS on Vimeo.

Water and ice

Here's another infographic for scale, this time featuring the southern-most continent.

The island of Count Wierdly

Sometimes I run across Skylock Fox by Bob Weber, Jr. at the Comics Curmudgeon site. The purveyor of the site utilizes a narrative that the Skylock Fox universe comprises of a world where genetically modified sentient animals co-exist alongside what ever humans still remain. So his narrative that accompanies this comic is rather dark.  But the simplistic scenario and solution are geographically oriented.

Colorful burroughs

Here's a pretty map-oriented cover of The New Yorker from the summer of 1987.  Is that supposed to be a head or face hiding in there?:

Psychedelic oceans

A constantly updated animated GIF of water temperatures in the Northern Atlantic. There are similar images of every oceanic region and globally at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Space Science and Engineering Center.

Bermuda Triangle

Well this couldn't possibly be more appropriate for our blog here now could it... especially in this week where we've done a few pirate-themed posts and this map showing part of the classic pirate hunting grounds  I was made aware of this one by Jerome, a former exchange student my parents hosted many years ago.  This illustration comes from Fuchsia Macaree, and illustrator with portfolio with a few other map-ish items.

Just messin' with ya

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:

http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/Tropical/

...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.