Map 223 is about weather, which is on my mind because of Hurricane Harvey. The category four hurricane reached land last night and is now dumping several inches of rain upon Texas and Louisiana. The map below was found on the National Weather Service’s website. Harvey has been in the news a lot this week as the people…
Map 221 is going to be very popular tomorrow. This map from CNN shows the path of Monday’s solar eclipse. The bright blue line in the middle is the path of the eclipse’s totality, meaning where the moon will perfectly align with the sun causing near-total darkness to fall upon the Earth (only the sun’s corona will…
This trip took place April 28th through April 30th, 2017. I drove to Kansas City with my cousin, Todd, for his bachelor party. Also in attendance were my other cousin, Dan, their father/my uncle, Mark, their cousin on the other side, Megan, and Todd’s friend, Mike. I woke up with a sore back from six hours on…
Map 219 makes me nervous. Global warming has claimed another victim. No, it wasn’t a human, but an ice shelf. A large portion of the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica broke off. The resulting iceberg, one of the largest ever recorded, is roughly 120 miles long, almost 1000 feet thick, and weighs over a trillion metric tons. That’s…
Sometimes on Fun with Maps I feature maps I find important or topical. Other maps I share simply out of respect. Map 217 is of the latter variety. It shows the Roman Roads of Britain, what would have been a cool enough map as is, but represented in modern subway map style. Take a look at…
