wind – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Sat, 04 Nov 2017 20:47:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg wind – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Hurricane Matthew Map Roundup https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/10/hurricane-matthew-map-roundup/ Thu, 06 Oct 2016 19:17:29 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=3007 More]]> nhc-matthew

Start with the National Hurricane Center, which has lots of different maps of Hurricane Matthew’s predicted path, weather warnings, rainfall potential and so forth. See also maps from Weather Underground.

Google’s Crisis Map includes evacuation resources—Red Cross shelters, evacuation routes, traffic data—in addition to storm track and precipitation information.

Matthew has already struck southwest Haiti; the Humanitarian OSM Team has put out a call for crisis mappers on the following projects: buildings in Nippes; road network in Grand’Anse and Sud.

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Wind maps from Windytv and EarthWindMap visualize the wind patterns of Matthew and, further out in the Atlantic, Nicole.

Hurricane imagery from NOAA’s GOES East satellite. NASA Earth Observatory has imagery of Matthew’s path toward Florida.

[Dave Smith/Maps Mania/NASA Earth/NOAA Satellites]

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Project Ukko https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/02/project-ukko/ Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:16:51 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=975 More]]> project-ukko

Project Ukko visualizes seasonal wind predictions, i.e., the amount of wind that is forecasted for the upcoming season. It’s the sort of thing the wind generation industry would find useful. But such a prosaic purpose is belied by the breathtaking way in which the data is visualized. [via]

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Earth Wind Map https://www.maproomblog.com/2013/12/earth-wind-map/ Tue, 24 Dec 2013 00:01:35 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/2013/12/earth-wind-map/ More]]> Earth Wind Map (screenshot)

Earth Wind Map is a transfixing animated visualization of global wind forecasts, updated every three hours. It would be fine enough to enjoy passively, but you can play with it: click and drag to change the view, select from a variety of map projections and pressure levels. Via io9 and GIS Lounge, among many others.

Previously: Wonderful Wind Map.

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Mapping Tornado Tracks https://www.maproomblog.com/2012/06/mapping-tornado-tracks/ Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:35:38 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/2012/06/mapping_tornado_tracks/ More]]> Tornado Tracks (map)
Using more than 50 years of NOAA data, John Nelson of IDV Solutions has created a map of tornado tracks across the United States, categorized by their F-scales (he’s also broken them out by each F-scale). Via O’Reilly Radar.

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Wonderful Wind Map https://www.maproomblog.com/2012/04/wonderful-wind-map/ Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:04:26 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/2012/04/wonderful_wind_map/ More]]> Wind map
An amazing visualization of near-term wind forecasts by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, based on data from the National Weather Service’s National Weather Forecast Database. Looks gorgeous; slows my browser right down. Via Boing Boing, Kottke and O’Reilly Radar, among others.

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