This is fantastic!
Be sure to click the menu, and browse the chemical pollution or particulate data, and the alternative projections. XKCD fans will be pleased :-D
A global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions
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#12I used this site to check wind conditions during the 2015 Tianjin explosions. I was 90 miles away (Beijing) and was considering leaving the country had wind been blowing in the wrong direction. At the time the risk of the hazardous chemicals released by the explosions was completely unknown, so wind conditions were the only objective piece of information I could base my decision on. Fortunately the wind was blowing north/east.
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#14I forked this and put plate tectonic velocity vectors (in an earth-centered, earth-fixed coordinate system) in place of wind vectors but didn't have the .js knowledge or time to fix all the annotations and menu stuff. I'm hoping to get to that this fall (but I've been saying that for a year or two...):
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#15Thanks, but I prefer this https://www.windyty.com/
The interface on windyty.com is better. It does not have the problem of filling up your browser's history with every move you make. I would like to be able to see the color scale key with out also having to open the full control panel.
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#16Does anybody know what this is? https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/ort... It shows over 300F in the middle of it.
9.98° N, 149.27° W
360° @ 88 km/h
The location of this data point on the earth's surface is 9.8 degrees North Latitude, 149.27 degrees West longitude[0]. Wind direction is 360 azimuth degrees(meaning it's coming from straight north at that point sampled[1]) at a speed of 88 km/h.
[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system
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#17Does anybody know what this is? https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/ort... It shows over 300F in the middle of it.
Its degrees as a geometrical measurement, not temperature. Its showing the course/angle of the wind at that location.
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#18this is amazing! so trippy. You can really track the two storms (US East Coast and right of Hawaii). The eye of the storm is relatively calm at 0-6 km/hr.
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#19Similar, but Arctic only: http://www.arctic.io/#simulation Changing dates and hours with a slider is quite informative.
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#20I forked this and put plate tectonic velocity vectors (in an earth-centered, earth-fixed coordinate system) in place of wind vectors but didn't have the .js knowledge or time to fix all the annotations and menu stuff. I'm hoping to get to that this fall (but I've been saying that for a year or two...): http://earth-analysis.com/vels/public/
That's a very good idea. Well done.