Sunday, October 28, 2012

Wind Map of the United States: This is so Cool (or, um, Hot)

The Wind Map (click the link - it's worth seeing) shows in more or less real time the wind directions in the United States. This shows weather patterns and, at least to me, presents a more intuitive way to look at it (compare here). The data is scrapped from the federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

This comes, by the way, via Hint.fm -- which is an awesome site run by two Ph.D's who run Google's Big Picture visual research lab (and ran their own visual research lab before that and ran IBM's Visual Communication Lab before that, all with groundbreaking work).

Via Zack.


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