This Site Visualizes the Wind Around the World

Ever wanted to see a real-time visualization of the air currents anywhere on Earth? Well now you can. This tool hosted at Nullschool.net lets you pan and zoom around a virtual globe and overlay animations of wind at different heights, or even switch to view ocean currents instead. It’s kind of hypnotic.

We learned about the site this morning when Chris Hadfield tweeted about it.

Here’s a look at Hurricane Arthur which was upgraded from a tropical storm this morning.

By playing around with the settings by clicking the word “Earth” on the page, you can get different views.

(Nullschool.net via Chris Hadfield)

Previously in weather and weather-related graphics mishaps:

• NPR explains how cats predict the weather
• Winter Storm Janus had a crucial letter dropped in this graphic
• National Weather Service hid a secret message in a forecast

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