How to Make this Crazy Map of Hurricanes since 1851

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Here is all the text used in the map...
title and subtitle:
HURRICANES SINCE 1851
Classified by the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale; Data sourced from the NOAA Centers for Environmental Information

timeline annotations:
Historical hurricanes have been meticulously estimated and reconstructed from accounts in the historical record.

Trans-oceanic air travel and active hurricane hunting in the 1940s contributed to a dramatic rise in the number of recorded storms.

Satellite reconnaissance beginning in the 1960s provided the first broad-scale vantage of Earth, dramatically improving identification and accuracy.

Geosynchronous satellites, beginning around the early 1970s through today, provide continuous atmospheric observations —and with it, continuity and precision.

data source:
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ibtracs/ind...

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