Wind globe

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  1. Nick.K
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    Nick.K Senior Member

    Interactive visual of world wind patterns. Absolutely brilliant.
    Rotate the view like google earth

    http://earth.nullschool.net/

    Apologies if you've seen it before.
    Nick
     
    Nick.K, Feb 13, 2014
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    Awesome! Thanks!
     
    Tiny Turnip, Feb 13, 2014
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  3. capt vimes
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    The graphics look great, but it takes ages to load if you zoom in and you just see the actual wind data...
    Nothing in the past and no way to go to the future...
    So it is unfortunately just a nice software project without any benefits...
     
    capt vimes, Feb 13, 2014
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  4. Nick.K
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    If you click on the Earth symbol lower left, an options box appears that lets you go forward or back in time in 3 hour slots. There are options for wind speed at different height, temperature, humidity etc.
    According to the blurb the data is gathered from world wide weather sources and is up dated every three hours.

    On the 12th we had 80kn gusts over SW Ireland, a friend sent me the link to see the development of the weather system...it works really well and closely matches the local met office charts.
    Nick
     
    Nick.K, Feb 14, 2014
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  7. capt vimes
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    thank you!
    it never occurred to me that i could click on the earth text... :eek:
    then i take back anything i said and state the opposite! :p ;)
     
    capt vimes, Feb 17, 2014
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