Coolest Thing I've Seen In A Long Time!

[jshell]

Check this out: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobari...

You can even click and drag the globe around...

Shamelessly stolen from a pprune thread on the mid-Atlantic turbulence that just injured some passengers on a transatlantic flight: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37228479

Hope everyone recovers from their injuries OK!

[simontdo]

Thanks. That's my morning sorted!

[Chunkymonkey71]

Cool!

[jshell]

Check this too: https://www.windyty.com/?58.089,1.439,6 That is so Ace!

[Cupramax]

jshell said:

Check this too: https://www.windyty.com/?58.089,1.439,6 That is so Ace!

Excellent!

[budgie smuggler]

Both excellent. Thanks

[xRIEx]

jshell said:

Check this too: https://www.windyty.com/?58.089,1.439,6 That is so Ace!

Cool! Hurricane in the mid-Atlantic (possibly)!

[Funkycoldribena]

Plenty of wind in my house.

[g3org3y]

Thanks for sharing.

[Oakey]

Is it realtime?

[227bhp]

I'd love one of these as a screen saver, don't think that's possible is it?

So the wind over the sea is doing 18mph, but slows to about 9mph over the land. At what height is that? I'm just pondering what slows it down, probably the obstacles which are land and what is on it, so presumably that is wind speed at ground level?

[anonymous-user]

jshell said:

Check this too: https://www.windyty.com/?58.089,1.439,6 That is so Ace!

That's a great site, thanks for posting.

[TTwiggy]

The Roaring 40s are living up to their name!

[Mr-B]

Cool indeed.

Isn't the Pacific mahooosive!!

[jshell]

el stovey said:

That's a great site, thanks for posting.

You and the others are all very welcome. It's nice to share cool st!

[Ollerton57]

I like this site which allows you to view live lightning strikes. It's amazing how many there are!

https://www.lightningmaps.org

[Harry H]

Mr-B said:

Cool indeed.

Isn't the Pacific mahooosive!!

And bloody windy down in the Southern Ocean.

[Speckle]

Brilliant! Now I can see exactly what the wind will be doing on my morning run tomorrow

[jshell]

Florida Hurricane: https://www.windyty.com/?30.796,-83.320,8

[silverous]

Not quite so cool graphically but if you want to see all the nasty stuff going on in the world at any time this is quite handy:

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php