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This Site Visualizes the Wind Around the World

Now do ones for Fire, Water, Earth, and Heart, and we can form Captain Planet.

Windy Planet

Ever wanted to see a real-time visualization of the air currents anywhere on Earth? Well now you can. This tool hosted at Nullschool.net lets you pan and zoom around a virtual globe and overlay animations of wind at different heights, or even switch to view ocean currents instead. It’s kind of hypnotic.

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We learned about the site this morning when Chris Hadfield tweeted about it.

Here’s a look at Hurricane Arthur which was upgraded from a tropical storm this morning.

Arthur

By playing around with the settings by clicking the word “Earth” on the page, you can get different views.

Windy Northeast

(Nullschool.net via Chris Hadfield)

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