On: The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over ...

[harlanlewis]

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 → harlanlewis]

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

[qvorak → harlanlewis]

Any idea what he used to make that? Super impressive

[shpx → qvorak]

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