Mapping The Us Drought

The New York Times has published an interesting animated map to visualize the spread of drought atmospheric condition inwards the United States over the end 5 months. Mapping the Spread of Drought Across the U.S. includes a issue of weekly updated charts amongst an animated map to exhibit the latest extent of the drought inwards the western together with south-western states.

The map animates through the end 5 months showing rut maps of where the drought has been virtually severe. I'm non alone certain how the map was created only based on the Mike Bostock credit I'm assuming the map was created amongst d3, using SVG to depict the map together with the drought areas. The map may too last using path transitions to assistance smoothen the animations betwixt the dissimilar drought past times appointment SVG paths.