Global Forecast Radar Animation 1 weeksGLOBAL WIND MAPClick the 'Global Wind Map' to see the wind atsouth china sea and the western pacific GIF via Dan Stuckey
It's a lot like the aptly-named Wind Map, only it's not for just the US. It's for the entire world.
Indeed, the folks behind this incredible global wind current visualization took inspiration from
the Wind Map, which visualizes wind speeds and flows
across the intercontinental US, and
would go on to create the Tokyo Wind Map
before pulling together the globe-spanning
real-time wind current
visualization, gif'd above to show North America. The project
pulls data from numerical models
by the National Centers for Environmental Protection, the
US National
Weather Service, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.
OK, so it's maybe not real-time real-time. What you see is updated every three hours. But
it's about as close as you can get to the
dynamic rhythms of of worldwide wind flows as they
are at any given
moment. It's beautiful, really. Go and move it around. That jet-stream
eye out
in the middle of the Indian Ocean? Just look at that thing. It
makes you feel completely and
utterly powerless to the forces of
nature.
Image By:Dan Stuckey By:WEATHER RESERACH NORTH OF BORNEO |
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