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The EarthWindMap gives one a sense of how much stronger (in general) the wind is over the sea than it is over the land: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/w
by truculation 9y ago
The EarthWindMap gives one a sense of how much stronger (in general) the wind is over the sea than it is over the land:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-13.97,33.58,606 https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/ort...
- andrewem 9y agoVery cool site, and it makes your point quite well. I panned over to the east coast of North America, and what's that? Oh yes, it's the Nor'easter that just hit that area, a big rotating storm with a very clear center. https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-65.16,30.81,606 https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/ort...
- JBlue42 9y agoYou might list windy as well: https://www.windy.com/ https://www.windy.com/
- swsieber 9y agoI find windy cool. However, it's not useful when looking at things like hurricanes or other things with large wind differences because the color scale warps around every 70mph or so.
- JBlue42 9y agoTrue. Just offering something else similar and cool for the person in the previous comment to check out.
- dillondoyle 9y agoI wonder how much energy collection it would take to significantly interrupt the polar airstream (IDK the name I'm sure there is one) - a la Day After Tomorrow but on a much slower time scale as wind comes on and alters energy.
- usrusr 9y agoOne data point: continents do influence the airstream in very noticable ways, but even they fall far short of interrupting it.
- hanoz 9y agoPresumably it's stronger because there are no obstructions - like hills, mountains or large wind farms.