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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: Chunkford on October 16, 2016, 04:18:39 PM

Title: The ultimate weather map
Post by: Chunkford on October 16, 2016, 04:18:39 PM
I can't stop playing with it - https://www.ventusky.com/
Title: Re: The ultimate weather map
Post by: rcjordan on October 16, 2016, 05:28:20 PM
I used it while tracking Hurricane Matthew here. Rainfall mouseover is particularly handy.
Title: Re: The ultimate weather map
Post by: littleman on October 16, 2016, 08:00:54 PM
That's pretty great. 
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Post by: ergophobe on October 16, 2016, 08:12:40 PM
Mesmerizing. I can see I'll be spending a lot of time looking at this in the winter

Quote from: rcjordan on October 16, 2016, 05:28:20 PM
I used it while tracking Hurricane Matthew here. Rainfall mouseover is particularly handy.

The first time I looked, either the mouseovers weren't working or I was too distracted by everything else going on. Being partly colorblind, the mouseover is key to figuring out the freezing altitude (and thus a rough idea of where it's snowing).
Title: Re: The ultimate weather map
Post by: Mackin USA on October 17, 2016, 02:35:17 PM
Holy poo poo

ZOOM OUT & See THE WORLD

Love it  ;D
Title: Re: The ultimate weather map
Post by: rcjordan on October 17, 2016, 11:58:37 PM
Here's another very similar one:

https://www.windytv.com/?29.612,-70.356,5

NOTE : Tools > Distance Measurement & Planning

That's what I was using to tell Doc how close the eye was supposed to be to his house

Also, I like the weather station icons. Mouseover gives you current reading (NOT the history reading if you're running the timeline player). This worked well to see windspeeds as Matthew was going by an area.
Title: Re: The ultimate weather map
Post by: Rooftop on October 18, 2016, 10:22:30 AM
Quote from: rcjordan on October 17, 2016, 11:58:37 PM
Here's another very similar one:

https://www.windytv.com/?29.612,-70.356,5

NOTE : Tools > Distance Measurement & Planning

That's what I was using to tell Doc how close the eye was supposed to be to his house

Also, I like the weather station icons. Mouseover gives you current reading (NOT the history reading if you're running the timeline player). This worked well to see windspeeds as Matthew was going by an area.

I sometimes use this one, as it includes wave data - which is important to me.
Title: Re: The ultimate weather map
Post by: bill on October 19, 2016, 04:16:01 AM
They have a Mackin version (http://thefuckingweather.com/)
Title: Re: The ultimate weather map
Post by: Rupert on October 24, 2016, 04:50:30 PM
Wow.. need better broadband to play with that.  Still in a little over a week we go from 2 to 200 mb so book marked.