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.

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/

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

Very confused

https://www.thedailystar.net/supplements/international-day-the-girl-child-2026/news/bangladeshs-child-marriage-paradox-4295326

https://brilliantmaps.com/spread-of-islam-map/

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.

THIS IS MY PERSONAL OPINION

Edit: i forgot to color my country honduras into something else.

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).

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The centre-right PSD won 105 seats and 40% of the popular vote versus 96 seats and 37% of the popular vote for the centre-left PS.