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warrior1

(12,325 posts) Tue Feb 4, 2014, 10:04 AM Feb 2014

Check out this new earth wind map

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=-116.48,31.64,935

You can zoom in and turn the earth around.

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Check out this new earth wind map (Original Post) warrior1 Feb 2014 OP

At first I read it as the Earth, Wind & Fire map justiceischeap Feb 2014 #1

Why do some areas look like black holes? Lasher Feb 2014 #2

Those Are Surface Winds.... Laxman Feb 2014 #4

Thank you. Lasher Feb 2014 #5

Very cool. Agschmid Feb 2014 #3

Reminds me of Starry Night! Scruffy Rumbler Feb 2014 #6

justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)

1. At first I read it as the Earth, Wind & Fire map

Reply to warrior1 (Original post)

Tue Feb 4, 2014, 10:11 AM

Feb 2014

Lasher

(27,573 posts)

2. Why do some areas look like black holes?

Reply to warrior1 (Original post)

Tue Feb 4, 2014, 10:23 AM

Feb 2014

And what happened to the jet stream running from Japan to the US west coast?

Laxman

(2,419 posts)

4. Those Are Surface Winds....

Reply to Lasher (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 4, 2014, 10:32 AM

Feb 2014

you may be able to detect the jet stream from looking at the patterns, but this depicts what's going on at the surface of the Earth. I certainly wouldn't want to be out on the North Atlantic right now!

Lasher

(27,573 posts)

5. Thank you.

Reply to Laxman (Reply #4)

Tue Feb 4, 2014, 10:37 AM

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Agschmid

(28,749 posts)

3. Very cool.

Reply to warrior1 (Original post)

Tue Feb 4, 2014, 10:28 AM

Feb 2014

Scruffy Rumbler

(961 posts)

6. Reminds me of Starry Night!

Reply to warrior1 (Original post)

Tue Feb 4, 2014, 11:53 AM

Feb 2014

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