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Time lapse visualization of the tornado outbreak April 25th-28th

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Tech details for those interested:

It's built on top of OpenLayers with Google Maps and OpenStreetMap as base layers.

It was written in CoffeeScript.

Jekyll was used to provide a local development server and then also to build a _site directory.

It's hosted on Google App Engine.