Yesterday the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season officially began, and the two main weather channels (The Weather Channel and FoxWeather) devoted much of their time to discussing this year's prospects regarding tropical storm systems and the damage that storms like Helene and Milton caused in 2024. I remember as a kid in the 1960s getting a free hurricane plotting map that many stores...including Publix...offered. Then I would eagerly wait for each day's newspaper (we got the Miami News) to examine its (usually front-page) article about the status of ongoing tropical systems, usually with the accompanying maximum sustained winds and that all-important figure, its coordinates. I'd duly plot out the new location and connect it to my previous plotting, making a gradual pathway that it was taking...I did this for years. Nowadays, though, since you can pretty much check up on the different tropical storms online or on TV on a 24/7 basis, this painstaking plotting out of a hurricane's progress just isn't practiced anymore. The last season I did this intentionally was in 1985 after Elena caused a scare in my Gainesville area after it abruptly shifted its path overnight to hover just off the coast at Cedar Key. Now, of course, I can go back on Wikipedia and get a synopsis of each past season, along with a map showing the different named storms' trajectories. For 2025, there will be no plotting in my house, but I'll keep in touch with the weather...
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