Quick comment that it took me a while to interpret the figure and realize the dots were indicating the *first* hurricanes of each calendar year. Maybe I'm dense or it's too early, but I was really confused! I went back and looked and saw the title, but it isn't clear to me that it refers to the dots instead of the lines and shading... again, maybe it's just too early and feel free to ignore this if I'm off base! Near-equally helpful and much easier to implement might just be a sentence in the article explaining that the dots are the first recorded storms, which is sort of implied in the preceding paragraph but not connected directly to the image.
Quick comment that it took me a while to interpret the figure and realize the dots were indicating the *first* hurricanes of each calendar year. Maybe I'm dense or it's too early, but I was really confused! I went back and looked and saw the title, but it isn't clear to me that it refers to the dots instead of the lines and shading... again, maybe it's just too early and feel free to ignore this if I'm off base! Near-equally helpful and much easier to implement might just be a sentence in the article explaining that the dots are the first recorded storms, which is sort of implied in the preceding paragraph but not connected directly to the image.