partial to windy.com myself https://www.windy.com/?20.633,-75.498,5,a:q3iI3
Whatever that last parameter is on the url, it causes mass rendering artifacts in Firefox/Linux. It works for me w/o.
Visualization of Harvey, Irma, and Jose
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Re: Visualization of Harvey, Irma, and Jose
#12Is this derived from http://hint.fm/wind/ ? Also, does anyone know how that elbow in the path forecast comes about? Is there something magical about the waist of Cuba that suddenly makes it turn north?
High pressure areas to the west.
Re: Visualization of Harvey, Irma, and Jose
#13Compare https://www.ventusky.com/?p=19.6;-77.9;4&l=wind&w=0xIAb9A9A
That’s my new favorite. It’s interesting how the wind appears to spiral into the eye near ground level, and out from the eye at 12k meters. It’s like there is a toroidal shape where on the bottom, wind spirals in towards the eye, transitions to the top in the eyewall and spirals out at the top.
"rising air in the eyewall follows isolines of equal angular momentum, which [also] slope outward with height" (Wikipedia)
Re: Visualization of Harvey, Irma, and Jose
#14Not sure if this is some display artifact, but the most striking thing to me is how strange the wind patterns are in many parts of North America if you zoom out.