Ok, it’s out.  Go check out 50 years of Atlantic hurricanes in the VFX
map/time viewer. The data comes from NOAA.  Each hurricane is
shown as a time span in the timeline which corresponds to it’s
geographic track on the map.  Along they way the individual alerts
indicate relative ferocity.  The timeline doubles as a charting element
to give an indication of frequency; it’s a histo-time-o-gram.
Anyways, check it out; live richly.

And, since I’ve already posted it before, here is the tiniest ever video
of HurricaneWatch in action (extreme squinting required)!