This site provides one of the best live wind animations we’ve seen. It shows wind direction and velocity and how one weather system’s wind is influenced by another.
Check it out:
You can click once on the map to view wind direction and velocity at a given location.
You can click and drag to rotate the globe, and you can scroll up and down to zoom in and out.
At the time of this posting, the view of super typhoon Nuri is quite remarkable.
This storm is on track to become the planet’s strongest storm of 2014, with sustained winds of 185 miles per hour!
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Beniy Waisanen says:
Wow
Dustin Urban says:
Here’s a great article about the effects that typhoon Nuri is likely to have on weather in North America:
http://earthsky.org/earth/extreme-u-s-weather-likely-thanks-to-typhoon-nuri
Parts of Alaska are forecast to experience hurricane force winds and seas of 45 ft or higher in the coming days! And then the system could contribute to unseasonably cold weather for the midwest and east coast.
Art Plewka says:
Any idea how often the animation changes?
Bill Saunders says:
Click on “Earth” (Lower Left) then “About” for details…
Bill
Hank Kennedy says:
A great thing. I sure wish I had something like this when I was fishing George’s bank in the 70’s. It will be fun to check now and then.
Hank