Cool animated graphic. -- Weather related

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  1. HalloweenRun

    HalloweenRun Founding Member

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    i probably have greater interest than the next guy in meteorology (had a lot of meteorology in college) but I wanted to share this graphic of prevailing winds. I found it when putting my hurricane web site together.

    https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=-71.84,27.13,674

    Be patient, it takes about 10 seconds to load and start the animation!

    For you art affectionados, there were times, with multiple storms, when the display looks a lot like Van Goh's Starry Night!

    [​IMG]
     
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    very cool,.. does that stay generally constant like ocean currents?

    EDIT: I did a little looking, change zoom with mouse wheel, if you click,.. earth,.. a menu opens, with a lot of options to play with. Very interesting @HalloweenRun, thanks for sharing.
     
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    Glad you liked it, I forgot to mention how much you can change image. There are prevailing winds, kind of in bands around the earth. I am not sure what the threshold is, but from the times I have looked the perturbations (storms, hurricanes, etc) stand out.
     
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