YCLONE.SOC brings together two contemporary phenomena:
severe weather, the project uses weather data that charts the emergence and progress of hurricanes.
the polarized nature of debate that occurs in certain online newsgroup forums.
The project maps textual conversation taken from the political and religious newsgroups to the isobars of a dynamic, interactive weather visualization of hurricanes - whose complex structures are used to visualize the conversational churn and eddies of the newsgroup conversations.