Jump to content

File:1956 Atlantic hurricane season summary map.png

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file (4,000 × 2,472 pixels, file size: 7.8 MB, MIME type: image/png)

Description
English: This map shows the tracks of all tropical cyclones in the 1956 Atlantic hurricane season. The points show the location of each storm at 6-hour intervals. The colour represents the storm's maximum sustained wind speeds as classified in the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale (see below), and the shape of the data points represent the type of the storm.
 
Tropical depression (≤38 mph, ≤62 km/h)
 
Tropical storm (39–73 mph, 63–118 km/h)
 
Category 1 (74–95 mph, 119–153 km/h)
 
Category 2 (96–110 mph, 154–177 km/h)
 
Category 3 (111–129 mph, 178–208 km/h)
 
Category 4 (130–156 mph, 209–251 km/h)
 
Category 5 (≥157 mph, ≥252 km/h)
 
Unknown

Storm type

▲ Extratropical cyclone / Remnant low / Tropical disturbance / Monsoon depression
Source Created using Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Tracks. The background image is from NASA [1]. The tracking data is from the National Hurricane Center's Atlantic hurricane database
Author Supportstorm
Public domain This work has been released into the public domain by its author, Supportstorm. This applies worldwide.
In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so:
Supportstorm grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.
Any autoconfirmed user can overwrite this file from the same source. Please ensure that overwrites comply with the guideline.

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

image/png

7bf160ca566ad3a68d6c3342c05c2bf9136e6573

8,182,123 byte

2,472 pixel

4,000 pixel

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current00:39, 15 July 2016Thumbnail for version as of 00:39, 15 July 20164,000 × 2,472 (7.8 MB)Supportstorm2016 reanalysis
18:06, 9 June 2013Thumbnail for version as of 18:06, 9 June 20133,000 × 1,854 (3.31 MB)Supportstorm{{Hurricane season auto track map|start=|end=|source=ATL|type=hurricane|basin=Atlantic|year=1956|author=Supportstorm}}

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file: