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Ventusky – Weather data visualization
- finid 10y agoLooks far better than Weather.com and accuweather.com
- maxerickson 10y agoI like forecast.weather.gov: http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.6936&lon=-89.589 http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.6936&lon=-89... No geoip, but a lot of information, right from the source. The NWS radar pages are also pretty good (and again straight from the source): http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=ilx&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=no http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=ilx&product=N0R&overl... There's 4 different display options for each radar, I usually use the simple loop one: http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar_lite.php?rid=ILX&product=N0R&loop=yes http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar_lite.php?rid=ILX&produc... They also have regional overview pages: http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Conus/centgrtlakes_lite_loop.php http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Conus/centgrtlakes_lite_loop.... Click to zoom to a local radar page.
- sovnade 10y agoNow I know who to blame real-time for this cold morning. It was you, Minnesota.
- CamperBob2 10y agoLooks nice. Lots of gratuitous bouncing when using the scroll wheel to zoom, though (Firefox 48.0, Win7). The effect is somewhat unsettling.
- davidjgraph 10y agoVery nice, although default of Fahrenheit, really? The date format is ISO rather than US by default. Maybe a master switch [US|Countries in the 21st Century] 8-)
- sidarape 10y agoYou can see the available locales in the setting panel.
- patatino 10y agoMy default was celsius. Firefox, language de
- wazari972 10y agoConnected from France, Firefox in english, default was °F
- oliv__ 10y agoSame here.
- GFischer 10y agoChrome in English, from Uruguay, default was ºF
- GrantSolar 10y agoIs that localisation EN-US or EN-GB?
- lorenzhs 10y agoIt's °C for me with EN-GB
- RandyRanderson 10y agodeg F, windows: en-ca chrome: EN-US Physically in Canada
- sambe 10y agoAlso Celsius for me, seems likely to be region/locale based (as it should be, I'd say).
- midgetjones 10y agoNice! Although it would take a lot to get me away from https://darksky.net/ https://darksky.net/ now.
- pawelduda 10y agoLooks very similar to Windytv (https://www.windytv.com/ https://www.windytv.com/). Are these websites somehow related?
- caub 10y agoI think they all use the same lib for drawing those vectors, leaflet I think
- piokuc 10y agoThey are both very similar to https://earth.nullschool.net/ https://earth.nullschool.net/ which is open source: https://github.com/cambecc/earth https://github.com/cambecc/earth
- tomslavkovsky 10y agoIt is not any longer, the last update on github was made 3 years ago. Now Cameron works is not publishing new features on github.
- anc84 10y agoWhich features does the website have that are not in the repo?
- tomslavkovsky 10y agoeg WebGL support which was added last year in November
- edouardb 10y agoTotally agree with that !
- tomslavkovsky 10y agoThey are not, the only common thing is that they are Czech companies. Windytv provides ECMWF model (for free), which beats Ventusky in big way.
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- nathancahill 10y agoLooks like Dark Sky[0] has a competitor. I'll probably use both of these side by side. [0] https://darksky.net/ https://darksky.net/
- a-ve 10y agoGreat website. On a side note, you can see the Himalayas doing their job: https://www.ventusky.com/?p=32.15;78.51;6&l=pressure https://www.ventusky.com/?p=32.15;78.51;6&l=pressure
- xjay 10y agoRelated: Site for tracking lightning/thunderstorms [1]. Warning: Sound is on by default. Disable by clicking Sound in the menu on the lower left. [1] http://blitzortung.org/ http://blitzortung.org/
- philfrasty 10y agoFor remote locations I find the NASA worldview pretty accurate for weather predictions. Just came back from the Seychelles, basically any weather forecast was completely off. Just by looking at the NASA satellite images you could roughly predict the cloud movements for the next day and though next sunshine :) EDIT: link https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov
- mrestko 10y agoNumber one criteria I look for in weather sites is that they pin my CPU to 100%.
- TallGuyShort 10y agoYou co-locate a lot of other workloads with your novelty weather visualizations, do you?
- divbit 10y agoBeautiful. This should be used to introduce vector fields in Calc 3 / Manifolds type courses.
- aneidon 10y agoI'd love this as a live wallpaper. Anyone if there's an easy way to make that happen?
- jojoo 10y agonice ui. i won't switch from meteoblue which has more features, a similar ui and more and much better models, at least for europe.
- tomslavkovsky 10y agohttp://Windytv.com http://Windytv.com is providing Meteoblue's NEMS model and you can compare weather models...
- djmill 10y agoThis site is great - and it looks like there are others out there too. I use this for backpacking and astrophotography to figure out precipitation and cloud patterns (as to not waste a drive out). Very helpful!
- snarf21 10y agoVery neat, I wish the water areas showed water temperature, not air temperature.
- dagw 10y agoWhile it is undeniably both beautiful and really cool, I've yet to see anything that beats a meteogram[1] when it comes to actually understanding at a glance what the weather is likely to do over the next couple of days. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteogram https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteogram
- lllr_finger 10y agoCompletely agree. The value of being able to compare individual parameters across models over time, especially with an NWS forecast overlaid is tremendous. If anyone is interested, IEM has a site that is rather easy to use once you find your local station ID and know how to plug it in: http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/~ckarsten/bufkit/image_loader.phtml http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/~ckarsten/bufkit/image_loader....
- anotheryou 10y agois there an online source for that? (preferabley with coverage of europe for me)
- dagw 10y agoThe android app Yr, from the Norwegian met centre will give you an up to date basic meteogram for most of the world. They (yr.no) also have an API if you want to download just the image for your own uses.
- Pavelcz 10y agoCheck out how you can embed a snapshot and it keeps the animation! All in the code, too!
- lllr_finger 10y agoThis is a great visualization of free data, although not the first in this style, but it's usefulness in actual forecasting or nowcasting is rather limited. Interpolation between sparse grid points can result in missing fine details, like the subtle boundaries that kick off the most violent storms in the central Plains. Limiting to just GFS and GEM make sense from a proof of concept level, however these are long range models that play in the 10-16 day range. GFS in particular uses a 13km spaced grid that isn't convection allowing, meaning it can't model individual storms well. GFS is typically only output every 6 hours as well so it can easily get out of sync on forecasts for the day of. It would be great to see these types of visualizations incorporate something fast and higher resolution like the HRRR or even one of the NAM/WRF 4km variants, but that is a lot more data than what is currently being ingested. The best weather information (for US citizens) hands down is still your local NWS office. I'd recommend everyone bookmarking their site and following them on social media.
- tomslavkovsky 10y agoWindytv (http://windytv.com http://windytv.com) provides ECMWF 9km global model, NAM 4km for CONUS, NEMS 4km for Europe and also GFS. Info about data sources used at Windytv https://community.windytv.com/topic/12/what-source-of-weather-data-windytv-use https://community.windytv.com/topic/12/what-source-of-weathe... Windytv created new version where you can see fine details for many different overlays.
- n0mad01 10y agojust returned from the canaries where windytv proficiently helped me to pick my bikeroutes, adapted to the prevailing wind conditions. these winds change fast and seem unpredictable and although the connection between general weather and wind is somehow limited it seems clear to me that it must be hard to make any accurate predictions.
- fapjacks 10y agoI used to be married to a military forecaster. It was always interesting to hear about how this stuff works, and it seems to me that "models not fitting reality" comprised at least 50% of their office drama. Forecasters have their own preference for models and "past experience" which leads them to very different conclusions. And climate change is making these models much less effective over time, adding even more excitement.
- keeganjw 10y agoWhen you zoom out, it makes the Earth feel like a living creature. So cool!
- IgorPartola 10y agoThe zoom on this thing is out of control.
- madhorse 10y agoSame, touching the scroll wheel yields unbearable UI confusion for about a minute.
- hrodriguez 10y agoDoes it make sense to anyone that this kind of data should be layered on regular mapping applications (directions, traffic, shops)? Or is it too much? I like the idea of visiting Google Maps, for example, and being able to toggle snippets of this kind of weather data onto the map itself. Other useful, one-click, toggles could include: 1. Real Estate Listings for a given area 2. Demographics 3. Forecasts & Historical weather info 4. Crime data 5. Local Events 6. Low-bandwidth settings 7. Access to publicly available real-time streaming cameras
- maxerickson 10y agoIf you are in the US, you can add a kmz to Google Earth to get some of the weather stuff: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/gis/kmlpage.htm http://www.nws.noaa.gov/gis/kmlpage.htm
- knz 10y agoThe issue is data accuracy/normalization and availability especially for data sets like crime data and local events. Real estate would be a little easier via the MLS (I suspect the cost is prohibitive though) and demographic data is easily available.
- jameshart 10y agoHave often wished there was a weather layer on the moving map in my car
- saycheese 10y agoConfusing how the wind is animated, nothing else is; for example, the temp, precipitation, etc.
- datl25 10y agoThis "cyclone bomb" is terrifying https://www.ventusky.com/?p=49.1;-27.3;3&l=pressure&t=20170206/12 https://www.ventusky.com/?p=49.1;-27.3;3&l=pressure&t=201702... Is it even possible?
- dest 10y agoI would guess it's a standard propagating structure. For other readers: winds at 80km/h rotating with a diameter of ~2000km. Pressure drops at 935hpa in the center edit: at 10m above the ground. at higher altitudes, it's quite faster and with a different shape
- brockwhittaker 10y agoIt's not just possible its very normal. It's called the Icelandic Low.
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- mrfusion 10y agoOffshoot topic. How can I find the windiest places in the us? I'm looking to move somewhere warmer and I was thinking a strong consistent wind would mitigate the hot summers.
- pqs 10y agoI live in a windy place, in Europe, and I suggest you to reconsider your decision.
- shitgoose 10y agowhere is Europe? Brussels?
- pqs 10y agoNo. I live in Spain, in an area close to a river delta where it is very, very windy. I also lived in a windy island for many years. Wind, when it is strong enough, can be very uncomfortable, even dangerous. I guess that what you are looking for are places with a sustained sea breeze in summer. However, these places tend to have high relative humidity, which is not comfortable.
- shitgoose 10y agothanks! reference to Brussels was a weak attempt at a joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windy_City_(nickname)#Politics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windy_City_(nickname)#Politics
- pmoriarty 10y agoWarm is not necessarily bad if it's not humid. The San Francisco Bay area gets up in to the 90's sometimes in the summer, but it's quite bearable because it's not very humid (don't know why, since it's so close to water). In New York and further south on the East Coast, it gets to be as hot or hotter, but with 100% humidity -- it's torture.
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- 0x1d 10y agoWow the visualization is great. Probably not as useful as a standard weather website, but blown away by the design.
- okidwiyulianto 10y agoCan not convert to Celcius. The default is Fahrenheit.
- CalRobert 10y agoCool! This reminds me a bit of weatherspark, which used to have a fantastic tool for visualizing long term trends. What were the 10th/50th/90th percentile temps for a given day over the last 30 years, etc. I wonder if the data sets here could be used to build something similar.
- superkuh 10y agoEveryone misses weatherspark. It's been a year since they went down and there's still no replacement for their historical weather viewer. I know they decided to stop because their flash based API for the radar map was depreciated but even just the historical and predicted line plots of weather data I'd pay money for. Ventusky is no weatherspark replacement and I don't think the models they're drawing their data from would work for one.
- CalRobert 10y agoDo you know if weatherspark used public or private data sources? I've been working on some open source data visualization tools and if the data sets were public perhaps we could build something with weather data sets in mind.
- ropeladder 10y agoAfter WeatherSpark shut down I spent a few minutes poking around weather data sources before getting overwhelmed and giving up. It looks like they get all their historical data from Weather.gov. (WeatherSpark lists their data sources here: https://weatherspark.com/about https://weatherspark.com/about ...and weather.gov appears to have their data available for download from NOAA: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/)
- ISNIT 10y agoI personally prefer https://earth.nullschool.net/ https://earth.nullschool.net/ I find it works better with Mac Trackpads
- synacksa 10y agoI remember using this site to watch the projected path of the last hurricane that happened (I forget it's name). It was an amazing visualization tool. Forgot about it since then.
- lngnmn 10y agoHow could it show anything meaningful for places where no weather data is collected, like Tibet or Nepal?
- piokuc 10y agoMajority of weather observations come from satellites these days.
- sccxy 10y agoLove this kind of weather visualisation. I'm fan of Windytv. They also offer free API: http://api.windyty.com/ http://api.windyty.com/ So I made tracker for around the world sailing race (Vendee Globe): https://gis.ee/vg/ https://gis.ee/vg/ It makes so much easier to follow big weather patterns.
- blondie9x 10y agoGreat stuff let's not forget https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/ort...
- rtkwe 10y agoIt's very interesting being able to drag the different projections around.
- tehsauce 10y agoThis pales in comparison to the much more detailed, beautiful, featured, older visualization at https://earth.nullschool.net https://earth.nullschool.net
- davidw 10y agoI'm somehow reminded of The Scream. Beautiful site, though.
- opticalflow 10y agoWell, I for one find this pretty cool, especially the part where you can select the altitude. As a licensed remote pilot, this gives me a good idea of winds aloft at-a-glance without having to parse an entire full-briefing with all METARs, PIREPs, AIRMETs, and whatnot. My main question is the "altitude" in this AGL (above ground level) or MSL (mean sea level)?
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- neptunespear 10y agoI only have a minor complaint: It only lets you view real time data and forecasts up to 2 weeks out; there's no archived data like earth.nullschool.net (which has data going back to 12/2013). If there were a site like that, or even a way of creating a DIY site that uses archived numerical data but maintains a similar UI/visual appeal as Ventusky (e.g. the wind streamlines, which I think look much more appealing than on nullschool), I would pay actual real money for this product.
- a3n 10y agoNice, but the page takes my laptop's CPU from a quiet 2% to a whiny 100%.
- chrisdone 10y agoI think making sense of the scale of weather would be aided by an accurate world map like the peters projection or something of that nature that doesn't do Eurocentric seafaring things like put Greenland as being the same size as Africa when Africa is like 11 times larger in reality. For example, with a proper map, the fact that much of the northern Atlantic landmass is heated by the sea would make more sense -- it's a much smaller area in reality than is represented.
- omegote 10y agoJust so you know, wind in Spanish is "viento", and "ventusqui" is an informal way to call the wind. So yep, they've copied both the concept AND the name of windytv.
- andai 10y agoIt seems many people have their locale set to en-us, but don't like seeing °F, inches etc. Go to Menu > Settings > Language > English [en] That will give you °C, mm, etc
- beezle 10y agoReminds me a little bit of when I used Vis5d back in the 90s to look at the weather model data. This is quite nice.
- krick 10y agoWhat do these indexes below the "Thunderstorm" mean? Why are visualizations of them so different?
- dublin 10y agoSure seems to be a lot of Fahrenhate here... Hey, look at it this way - the more granular Fahrenheit degrees (roughly half (5/9) a Celsius degree) are more useful for determining comfort - including setting a thermostat: I've had a couple of European cars that clearly used degrees Celsius for their setpoint (even if displaying degrees F, usually skipping by twos). Way too often, it simply wasn't possible to set the AC comfortably - it was either too warm or too cool. This matters in Texas...