The Year in Cyclones

The 2005 hurricane season is represented in the NASA animation on this page (warning: longish download) showing sea surface temperature fluctuations in the Atlantic along with the storm tracks of all 30 tropical depressions, a record 26 of which became named storms. The record-shattering season was remarkable right down to the bitter end, with the unlikely Hurricane Epsilon defying forecasters to become the longest-lived December hurricane despite relatively cool sea surface temperatures and strong wind shear.