Because weather is awsome.
Check out the wind map.
It would be even more awsomer if it could be tweaked to display changes over a given period of time.
Labels: pictures, science, speaking of the weather, things you find on the InterWeb
posted by Matt G @ 7:43 AM
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At this time, it's like a big sewer drain just west of Philly. Not that that's a bad thing, really.
Interesting, I'd never seen that particular depiction before...
Yeah, but the danged site keeps locking up my browsers, regardless of whether I use Internet Exploder or Firefox. It's the last weather site I hit, 'cause I have to close down after it.
If you like that, try this:
http://weather.cod.edu/satrad/
The niftiest tab to hit is there on the left "Hemispheric Products". Click on that, and then click on the "Polar" in the map. Use the pull-down in the "Product Menu", and click on the "48" images button under the "Water Vapor". It may take a couple of minutes to load with a poor connection, but the imagery is incredible.
The view from above the North Pole is a churning, swirling pot of water vapor in the atmosphere, swirling at time in almost perfect synchrony. I've seen it in five- and six-symmetry swirls.
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