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A few weeks ago we showed you ship tracks seen from space. Here is another interesting image of hurricane and tropical storm tracks, well, plotted on an image of the Atlantic. According to the image summary:
This map shows the tracks of all Atlantic hurricanes which formed between 1851 and 2005. The points show the locations of the storms at six-hourly intervals and use the color scheme shown to the right from Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.
Blue = Tropical depression; Red = Category 5 hurricane
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