Global weather

November 30, 2015 5:32 AM

Windyty is a very pretty way of visualising current and forecast weather data from around the globe.
posted by Dim Siawns (11 comments total)

I have immediately emailed this to a friend of ours, who is an absolute weather wonk. (He's been keeping handwritten diaries of weather observations for over 30 years.)
posted by Kitteh at 5:56 AM on November 30, 2015

Very cool!

Or very warm, or moderate, depending on where you look.
posted by Foosnark at 6:06 AM on November 30, 2015 [1 favorite]

Neat! It's kind of calming to watch, but it's also kind of wondrous, seeing such large scale patterns. I want ones for other planets and moons...
posted by Wolfdog at 6:07 AM on November 30, 2015 [1 favorite]

Bookmarked. Thanks!
posted by Splunge at 6:14 AM on November 30, 2015

If this seems familiar, that's probably because it's based on Earth, which we discussed previously. Another close relation is Wind Map, discussed here.
posted by zamboni at 6:17 AM on November 30, 2015 [5 favorites]

Bookmarked!
posted by notyou at 7:21 AM on November 30, 2015

Hey this is nice! I was also confused about "wait isn't this earth.nullschool.net" but there's a lot more data layers like temperature and waves available via the radio buttons. The basemap is also quite detailed; you can zoom in to see local features.

Ivo, the Wyndyty creator, provides proper credit to Earth on his about page. There's a little text writeup about it from when it launched last year.
posted by Nelson at 7:22 AM on November 30, 2015 [1 favorite]

I already had the earlier wind map bookmarked, but this has a lot more.
Interesting is the difference between surface wind and wind at 13,500m.
posted by MtDewd at 8:06 AM on November 30, 2015 [1 favorite]

Yeah those high altitude winds neatly illustrate why Eastbound flights are so much quicker than Westbound (in North America, at least).
posted by rocket88 at 8:53 AM on November 30, 2015 [1 favorite]

If you like this kind of weather data visualization, you may also be interested to know about Weatherspark.
posted by cmoj at 9:51 AM on November 30, 2015 [2 favorites]

cmoj: "If you like this kind of weather data visualization, you may also be interested to know about Weatherspark."

And bookmarked. Who knew I would geek out on weather today?
posted by Splunge at 9:58 AM on November 30, 2015 [1 favorite]