Earth Wind Map

[Maxx Baqustae]

Amazing. That's a hell of a system in the North Pacific.

I think you'll find that what meteorologists call is the semi-permanent low in the Gulf of Alaska/North Pacific. It wobbles back & forth but most of the time it's there in some type of fashion. I'm a bit of weather geek, not like Dry-Shirt - I'm not worthy of that title, but I've been looking at weather since being a boy. Even before I started sailing. That low manufactures our weather for us and it's never dull.

That site is a perfect thing for me.

 

[ecsimonson]

You can pick wind at different pressure levels which are different elevations.

It's awesome but I wish it would tell you the elevation of the measurements and ideally let you choose. I don't see the jet stream at all but I'm on a plane from Seattle to Boston right now and the pilot says we've got a 100kt tailwind.

 

[SloopJohnB]

and different earth protections

 

[IStream]

Thanks for the tips. There it is at less than 500 hPa...

 

[lahana]

That is one of the coolest things I have seen! Thanks for posting.

 

[Bitter Gnat]

Neat. Thanks.

 

[Magool]

Awesome, thanks for sharing that

 

[scottmax]

That awesome! Definately in real time, just clicked on my position and it matches with current condition within a few hours at least.

 

[bgytr]

It's awesome but I wish it would tell you the elevation of the measurements and ideally let you choose. I don't see the jet stream at all but I'm on a plane from Seattle to Boston right now and the pilot says we've got a 100kt tailwind.

It looks like surface winds- standard height is 10 meters. But over land masses, dunno.

Neat display. You can get a real feel for global circulation and the local effects.

 

[monsoon]

It's awesome but I wish it would tell you the elevation of the measurements and ideally let you choose. I don't see the jet stream at all but I'm on a plane from Seattle to Boston right now and the pilot says we've got a 100kt tailwind.

It looks like surface winds- standard height is 10 meters. But over land masses, dunno.

Neat display. You can get a real feel for global circulation and the local effects.

click on earth and you'll see several isobar options for 'height'

default is 1000 hPa (surface), 500 hPa gives a nice view of the jet stream

 

[bgytr]

It's awesome but I wish it would tell you the elevation of the measurements and ideally let you choose. I don't see the jet stream at all but I'm on a plane from Seattle to Boston right now and the pilot says we've got a 100kt tailwind.

It looks like surface winds- standard height is 10 meters. But over land masses, dunno.

Neat display. You can get a real feel for global circulation and the local effects.

click on earth and you'll see several isobar options for 'height'

default is 1000 hPa (surface), 500 hPa gives a nice view of the jet stream

Really cool.

 

[shaggy]

Now I know why the internet was invented.

That is bad ass.

+100

 

[bgytr]

It's awesome but I wish it would tell you the elevation of the measurements and ideally let you choose. I don't see the jet stream at all but I'm on a plane from Seattle to Boston right now and the pilot says we've got a 100kt tailwind.

It looks like surface winds- standard height is 10 meters. But over land masses, dunno.

Neat display. You can get a real feel for global circulation and the local effects.

click on earth and you'll see several isobar options for 'height'

default is 1000 hPa (surface), 500 hPa gives a nice view of the jet stream

From the about section:

atmospheric pressure corresponds roughly to altitude. several pressure surfaces are meteorologically interesting

note: 1 hectopascal (hPa) ≡ 1 millibar (mb)
1000 hPa | ~100 m, surface conditions
850 hPa | ~1,500 m, planetary boundary, low
700 hPa | ~3,500 m, planetary boundary, high
500 hPa | ~5,000 m, vorticity
250 hPa | ~10,500 m, jet stream
70 hPa | ~17,500 m, stratosphere
10 hPa | ~26,500 m, even more stratosphere

 

[Reht]

Cool map. Easy to see how the different pressure systems affect weather flow...

Fun to go match up to the pressure charts...

 

[Ajax]

Thanks for the explanation.

 

[liquid courage]

Wow. Neat.

Love the Pacific high vortex as I do Pac Cups often.

Not quite as neat as shown...

 

[timz3818]

Would be totally awesome to do a mashup of that with racing updates (Vendee, VOR)

Agreed. It would be very cool to be able to overlay a gps tracker and animate the wind conditions over the duration of a race like the Transpac.

 

[MR.CLEAN]

Ummm...sorry Trude. Ed sent this to me a day before DaveK put it up. And I saw it on Giz or IO9 a couple days before that.

 

[dcbsheb]

Ummm...sorry Trude. Ed sent this to me a day before DaveK put it up. And I saw it on Giz or IO9 a couple days before that.

Well lotty friickin da! "I saw it firrst!

Thanks for sharing.

Jerk.

 

[frozenhawaiian]

Ummm...sorry Trude. Ed sent this to me a day before DaveK put it up. And I saw it on Giz or IO9 a couple days before that.