Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki talk:How to start a Hypothetical Hurricane Season/@comment-24995513-20130525133423/@comment-72.189.35.209-20130525164031

From Ryne- I haven't made one myself yet but I think how it works is:

I know that basically people use maps of an ocean (Namely the Atlantic), and basically the tracks are either just drawn up lines or dots (Colored to indicate the category of the storm), which are separated in 6  hour advisory intervals (I.E: 1 colored dot.).

So you can make your storm start out at sea somewhere and either stay out at sea or make landfall somewhere.

So to start this process, I'd say

First. You can find maps of certain basins in photos or if you search '(Ocean Name) Marble.png' you be shown a map depending on what ocean basin you want to have the storm and/or season in.

Second. Save the image of the map.

Third. I believe most people use paint for this step: (But it first should be recommended that once you've the previous step (2), that when you make track(s), you save them as separate files (Such as Unnamed Tropical Storm.png (or .jpg) and not as the same file that you were doing it on.)

If you wanna use the drawn lines method: Basically draw a line from where the storm would start and to where it would finish. Simple (Sorta) as that.

Or if you wanna use the Colored Dots method (Which is semi-popular): Note that each dot indicates an advisory, and that each one is typically a 6 hour advisory.

And each dot should be colored to match the intensity category that it currently

has or had.

When using the Dots, make sure that (If the storm also actually had a movement speed) that the dots art separated at least at a slight away from each (This again would also indicate storm movement) and you wanna keep adding the dots, sending the storm to where ever you darn well please (Or almost at least, when it comes to certain areas) and finally having it end at your desired location. (Where ever it maybe).

And again, you wanna make sure that the dots are colored to match the storm's strength/Category.

I hope this helps in (At least) the slightest.