the first few seconds

In this animation I started playing with animating the camera as well as the storm strikes. It came out kind of jumpy in two places, but you get the idea. (Also, the animation is not that fuzzy looking on my computer, but somewhere in the uploading process some information must have been lost.)

I also have the data designated with different colors for different years (2001 to 2002 shown in animation). Should I separate by color, or have them all be the same color?

p.s. Rendering takes forever, but things are coming along. The new Macs in the lab are amazing!