If anyone wants to see where it is, the hurricane's moved further up north away ...

harlanlewis · on Oct 5, 2016

That's a great visualization. Reminded me of one posted to hacker news a few weeks ago that let's you cycle through visualizations of cloud cover, atmospheric pressure, precipitation etc in addition to wind:

https://www.windyty.com/?20.551,-74.487,5

I really love seeing all these conditions moving in concert at a global scale. As someone who's never experienced a hurricane, it makes the effects feel much less abstract.

anc84 · on Oct 5, 2016

Click the "Earth" link, there are much more options hidden.

qvorak · on Oct 5, 2016

Any idea what he used to make that? Super impressive

shpx · on Oct 5, 2016

windytv is a fork of earth [0], which is open source [1] and made with D3.js [2], I'm guessing windytv is also using d3.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12415777

[1] https://github.com/cambecc/earth

[2] https://earth.nullschool.net/about.html

losteverything · on Oct 5, 2016

What is this site about?

lorenzhs · on Oct 5, 2016

Current wind speed at surface level on an orthographic projection. You can basically read out the URL ;)