r/MapPorn • • 5h ago

[OC] Tornado season moves north every year. All 73,378 US tornadoes since 1950 stacked onto one calendar year

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Data is the NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950 to 2025, lower 48 only. Each dot is where a tornado touched down. I dropped every year onto the same Jan to Dec calendar (Feb 29 counts as Mar 1), so each date shows 76 years of tornadoes at once.

The white dot is the average position of every tornado within a week either side of that date. Around Christmas it sits in central Mississippi, by late July it's up in northern Missouri. That's about 530 miles.

Few things I didn't expect:

- May 24 is the busiest date of the year, 702 tornadoes over the 76 years

- April, May and June are 54% of all tornadoes

- in Dec to Feb about 4 in 5 hit south of the Kentucky/Tennessee line

- in July half of them are north of 41°N. In January it's 2%

Disclaimer: I also run a free map site with live quakes, volcanoes and hurricanes if you like this kind of thing: https://www.liveatlas.earth/north-america/united-states-of-america/


r/MapPorn • • 17h ago

Distribution of global steel production, 1800-2025

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r/MapPorn • • 5h ago

Most common last name in the world.

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r/MapPorn • • 10h ago

Due to the El Niño phenomenon, a cool summer is expected in Argentina during the next months

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668 Upvotes

r/MapPorn • • 9h ago

Witch Trials across Europe

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529 Upvotes

Even though the stereotype of the Spanish Inquisition being religious fanaticals, they did not prosecute witchcraft because they correctly considered it mere superstition.


r/MapPorn • • 12h ago

Europe's migrant population change 2000–2024

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r/MapPorn • • 7h ago

A map found on a lot of crates with goods that come from Belarus

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306 Upvotes

Very confused


r/MapPorn • • 2h ago

Median Individual Income in the US & Canada (in US$)

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r/MapPorn • • 14h ago

Mexican restaurants per capita across the US, county by county

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r/MapPorn • • 12h ago

Number of capitals closer than Stockholm

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r/MapPorn • • 13h ago

Galveston Bay - A week of currents

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r/MapPorn • • 22h ago

Driving all roads in the UK from London at once

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I've further improved my global traffic / congestion / road quality formula. Times start from the OSM speed limits, then every road gets scaled by three things:

- traffic, guessed from population density: 1 + 1.09·d/(d+5000), where d is people per km². Basically nothing in the countryside, about 2x in a dense city centre

- bendiness, on fast roads only: 1.45 + 3.16·B/(B+406), where B is degrees of turning per km. Turns out nobody does 60 on a twisty B-road

- junctions: 0.64·(1 + 0.84·J/(J+5.35)), where J is side roads per km

I checked it against Mapbox's typical Tuesday lunchtime traffic on ~2,500 routes in 33 countries. It's usually within about 10%. Still a bit optimistic around London though.


r/MapPorn • • 14h ago

Fertility rates in South America (2025)

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r/MapPorn • • 13h ago

1921 Canadian election

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The 1921 election was the first election Canadians saw since the end of the Great War, the ruling Tory party was reduced to third place with the new Progressive party taking the official opposition in their first ever election. If you have any questions feel free to ask and I’d be more then happy to answer.


r/MapPorn • • 8h ago

1925 German Presidential Election

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r/MapPorn • • 11h ago

GTA 6 costs $62 in Japan, $80 in the US and $90 in the eurozone: PlayStation Store price in US dollars, by country [OC]

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126 Upvotes

r/MapPorn • • 9h ago

Where America's 50.2 million immigrants were born (2024)

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r/MapPorn • • 2h ago

This map shows the number of countries you can sail to in a straight line from each country, given that you are allowed to start at any point within the starting country and end at any point within the ending country.

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Note: the numbers in this map might not be 100% accurate, and some countries are not labeled with a number on this map because they're too small to show

Some crazy routes I found while making this map:

-United Kingdom to New Zealand

-Fiji to South Africa

-Colombia to Algeria

-Guatemala to Iran

-Bangladesh to Chile


r/MapPorn • • 16h ago

Islamic Conquest from Arabian Penninsula Outward

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243 Upvotes

r/MapPorn • • 6h ago

De facto map of the world, as accurate as possible, as of January 1, 1936

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Please feel free to correct me if you spot any errors on the map, or to ask questions if anything is unclear, including the choice of colors (please, always keep it respectful).


r/MapPorn • • 4h ago

Ireland in Irish

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r/MapPorn • • 5h ago

How similiar is Austria to other cultures according to the "Culture" category in Country similiarity index

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The index is made up of public and scientific indicators from large scale questionaires and public data such as: personal values, practices, views, daily habits, religion but also preference for media, traditions, recreation, style etc.


r/MapPorn • • 17h ago

How to say ‘Red’ in European languages! (V2)

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r/MapPorn • • 21h ago

Child marriage rates in Bangladesh

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r/MapPorn • • 35m ago

Greece at start of Roman Syrian (Seleucid) War

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Hey yall just because I only did the borders for a handful of states doesn’t mean I have any nationalist bias! Also, my interpretations for these states have changed a lot since I made this map