Nice live weather data website

[repoman]

I found it out from going to a website about climate change.

There are a whole lot of ways to toggle the data.

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=relative_humidity/orthographic=-30.30,23.85,415

This setting shows that the US West coast is getting very dry. Lower RH than the Sahara?!?

I also like to look at Ocean Mode and overlay the SSTA (Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly). It shows the level of warming in the Arctic.

Any settings or info that anyone can glean from this app?

So is the US West Coast getting the heat from the nearby ocean having a large SSTA, but not moisture? Or are the currents not sending much air/water to the west coast?

Maybe the fact that there is not much water coming in means that there is not many clouds blocking the sun and also that heat doesn't have to go into evaporation, but instead air temp.

 

[bilby]

I found it out from going to a website about climate change.

There are a whole lot of ways to toggle the data.

That's nice. Are you keeping this discovery to yourself, or can we have a URL so we can check it out ourselves?

 

[repoman]

It wouldn't allow me to enter a link when I started the thread.

This is the website that uses this data at times:

http://robertscribbler.com/2015/08/20/monster-el-nino-turns-typhoon-eyes-toward-arctic/


This is the other tool the website uses:

http://cci-reanalyzer.org/DailySummary/

 

[repoman]

found a good demonstration of the Earth.Nullschool program:



the 250 hPa pressure is where airplanes fly.

And this is the Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/EarthWindMap