This visualization compares the hourly pedestrian density between an extreme weather day and a normal day. We are using November 21st, 2016 as our extreme weather day.

On November 21st, 2016 at 5:30 pm an asthma thunderstorm kills 9 and hospitalises hundreds, high heat and humidity cause thunderstorms to form northwest of the city, due to excessive grass growth in the north and west of Melbourne these storms send pollen into Melbourne and its suburbs raising pollen counts and triggering thousands of severe asthma attacks. The massive number of attacks overloaded emergency services and contributed to the fatalities.

We will compare the pedestrian density of this specific day to a normal weather day, May 2nd, 2019.