better detail as well. Down to the street level.Good find!
just a side note…
We used Windy and Ventusky to track Irma and Michael..
Ventusky nailed Irma all the way…of course beat out the NHC that was all over the place…Windy missed Irma completely
..Michael was the opposite….Ventusky totally blew Michael’s prediction and track….Windy nailed it
This reminds me of these words…
Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind
As man’s ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most freindship if feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.
Freeze, freeze thou bitter sky,
That does not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp
As a friend remembered not.
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.
by William Shakespeare
Thank you, that was beautiful along with the photos.
You’re welcome. John Rutter does justice to Will’s old words. And it’s pretty easy singing if you’re in the tenor section, a bit more work if you are a soprano!
I’ve been using this site for a couple of years now.
The on site cameras give a better idea of conditions than just looking at the forecast.
Even more cool! Sure beats chalk on a blackboard.
The road map is more up to date than Google, slackers.
Just put the WINDY app on my devices. Nice! Except I had to change all those stupid ‘metric’ settings to proper ENGLISH measurements.
Yes, the audacity of those with only 10 fingers or toes trying to get the rest of us to not use the length of the emperor’s foot, stride, or digits. Long live the emperor!
😉 Well, Imperial does imply an empire, doesn’t it?
I just went through the opposite process for the site at the top of the page. To each their own.
Kenji.
I agree. Personally I stuck to the proper English measurements, where possible. I am used to the Celsius scale for the weather reports. Where cooking is concerned I ignore any recipe that requires metric measurements no matter how good the recipe sounds.
This is the one I’ve been using since Intellicast stopped providing services for our local.
Neat, sometimes I just love tech.
Check out flowx
– A few wind basics, so you can see what’s tracking inbound the U.K. as we speak.
Areas of low and high pressure exist here ‘n there in the atmosphere; “daytime heating” or “global warming”, or something. The air tries to rush away from a high-pressure area into a low-pressure area, as you’d expect; but because the Earth is turning, we run-into a crazy little thing called “coriolis”, and this causes the air to swirl-around the areas of different pressure, rather than flow directly in – the swirl is clockwise around a low, counter-clockwise around a high in the northern hemisphere, and opposite that in the southern hemisphere.
– This carries-on to other things, BTW: if you pull a plug on a sinkful of water, it tends to swirl clockwise in the northern hemisphere; I’ve empirically tested this and it works, but to my deepest possible regret, I haven’t spent nearly enough time in the southern hemisphere to see it go counter-clockwise for myself – I’m starting a gofundme page if you’d like to help remedy this sad state of affairs… 😉
So what, you ask? – well, miserable weather is almost exclusively associated with low pressure areas. So if you look at the Atlantic westward of the U.K., there’s a big system with clockwise winds – i.e., a low pressure system – and the prevailing winds there are west-to-east, so it should blow ashore in Ireland tonight – poor sods…
A few further observations for you; as a result of this clockwise flow, in the northern hemisphere “When the wind’s at your back, the low is on your left”. This means that, with the west-to-east prevailing winds at our latitude (and I haven’t spent enough time in the tropics to familiarize myself with the winds down there, that normally flow east-to-west; I’ll have another gofundme up shortly… 😉 southerly winds ( – the wind direction you hear is ALWAYS where it’s coming from; so ‘southerly winds’ are winds from the south; no idea why they do it like this – ) mean that yes, the thrice-d@mned low-pressure system is coming right at you.
And an additional point to that; the winds here are almost invariably west-to-east; and when they switch to east-to-west, it means some really foul weather is on the way. I used to cycle to work; I’ve had the winds switch-about during the course of the day, so I had them upwind-to-work in the morning, and upwind-to work going home, which meant a miserable day’s cycling today AND tomorrow… 🙁
Anybody else remember that commercial? – “It’s not NICE to fool Mother Nature”; KA-WHAM!
– CORRECTION: I knew I had something wrong in there. It’s clockwise around a HIGH, counter-clockwise around a LOW in the northern hemisphere. Gimme a break, it’s been decades since I had to know this shtuff…
– So, yeah – nice day in store for Ireland!
Does a digital clock go clockwise, or counterclockwise?
Depends on whether you’re in the northern or southern hemisphere when you’re using it as a sundial.
Yes, I remember Ma in those commercials.
I used to cycle a lot in my younger days around Calgary. Always checked the wind direction and headed into it. That way I could ease off pedaling coming back with the wind at your back. Did that in Crows Nest a few times on Hwy 3. No pedaling needed on the return trip and could cruise about 20 km/hr, a bit down slope plus wind.
Uk oh, Greenland is covered in snow.
I’m sure Climate Barbie’s Atmosphere Correction Police will be sending them “updated and corrected” information soon.
I’ve had it bookmarked for a few years now. On the left side, left click on the Wind Speed button and a drop down menu appears. From the drop down select “200hpa, 12,000m” and you can see the jet stream at 39,000ft.
Thanks for sharing, Kate. I really like this site!
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Cool. A better version of this: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=temp/orthographic=-222.68,34.38,1277
better detail as well. Down to the street level.Good find!
just a side note…
We used Windy and Ventusky to track Irma and Michael..
Ventusky nailed Irma all the way…of course beat out the NHC that was all over the place…Windy missed Irma completely
..Michael was the opposite….Ventusky totally blew Michael’s prediction and track….Windy nailed it
This reminds me of these words…
Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind
As man’s ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most freindship if feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.
Freeze, freeze thou bitter sky,
That does not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp
As a friend remembered not.
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.
by William Shakespeare
Try this version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3is-UbB-QYo
Thank you, that was beautiful along with the photos.
You’re welcome. John Rutter does justice to Will’s old words. And it’s pretty easy singing if you’re in the tenor section, a bit more work if you are a soprano!
I’ve been using this site for a couple of years now.
https://www.windy.com
The on site cameras give a better idea of conditions than just looking at the forecast.
Even more cool! Sure beats chalk on a blackboard.
The road map is more up to date than Google, slackers.
Just put the WINDY app on my devices. Nice! Except I had to change all those stupid ‘metric’ settings to proper ENGLISH measurements.
Yes, the audacity of those with only 10 fingers or toes trying to get the rest of us to not use the length of the emperor’s foot, stride, or digits. Long live the emperor!
😉 Well, Imperial does imply an empire, doesn’t it?
I just went through the opposite process for the site at the top of the page. To each their own.
Kenji.
I agree. Personally I stuck to the proper English measurements, where possible. I am used to the Celsius scale for the weather reports. Where cooking is concerned I ignore any recipe that requires metric measurements no matter how good the recipe sounds.
This is the one I’ve been using since Intellicast stopped providing services for our local.
Neat, sometimes I just love tech.
Check out flowx
– A few wind basics, so you can see what’s tracking inbound the U.K. as we speak.
Areas of low and high pressure exist here ‘n there in the atmosphere; “daytime heating” or “global warming”, or something. The air tries to rush away from a high-pressure area into a low-pressure area, as you’d expect; but because the Earth is turning, we run-into a crazy little thing called “coriolis”, and this causes the air to swirl-around the areas of different pressure, rather than flow directly in – the swirl is clockwise around a low, counter-clockwise around a high in the northern hemisphere, and opposite that in the southern hemisphere.
– This carries-on to other things, BTW: if you pull a plug on a sinkful of water, it tends to swirl clockwise in the northern hemisphere; I’ve empirically tested this and it works, but to my deepest possible regret, I haven’t spent nearly enough time in the southern hemisphere to see it go counter-clockwise for myself – I’m starting a gofundme page if you’d like to help remedy this sad state of affairs… 😉
So what, you ask? – well, miserable weather is almost exclusively associated with low pressure areas. So if you look at the Atlantic westward of the U.K., there’s a big system with clockwise winds – i.e., a low pressure system – and the prevailing winds there are west-to-east, so it should blow ashore in Ireland tonight – poor sods…
A few further observations for you; as a result of this clockwise flow, in the northern hemisphere “When the wind’s at your back, the low is on your left”. This means that, with the west-to-east prevailing winds at our latitude (and I haven’t spent enough time in the tropics to familiarize myself with the winds down there, that normally flow east-to-west; I’ll have another gofundme up shortly… 😉 southerly winds ( – the wind direction you hear is ALWAYS where it’s coming from; so ‘southerly winds’ are winds from the south; no idea why they do it like this – ) mean that yes, the thrice-d@mned low-pressure system is coming right at you.
And an additional point to that; the winds here are almost invariably west-to-east; and when they switch to east-to-west, it means some really foul weather is on the way. I used to cycle to work; I’ve had the winds switch-about during the course of the day, so I had them upwind-to-work in the morning, and upwind-to work going home, which meant a miserable day’s cycling today AND tomorrow… 🙁
Anybody else remember that commercial? – “It’s not NICE to fool Mother Nature”; KA-WHAM!
– CORRECTION: I knew I had something wrong in there. It’s clockwise around a HIGH, counter-clockwise around a LOW in the northern hemisphere. Gimme a break, it’s been decades since I had to know this shtuff…
– So, yeah – nice day in store for Ireland!
Does a digital clock go clockwise, or counterclockwise?
Depends on whether you’re in the northern or southern hemisphere when you’re using it as a sundial.
Yes, I remember Ma in those commercials.
I used to cycle a lot in my younger days around Calgary. Always checked the wind direction and headed into it. That way I could ease off pedaling coming back with the wind at your back. Did that in Crows Nest a few times on Hwy 3. No pedaling needed on the return trip and could cruise about 20 km/hr, a bit down slope plus wind.
Uk oh, Greenland is covered in snow.
I’m sure Climate Barbie’s Atmosphere Correction Police will be sending them “updated and corrected” information soon.
I’ve had it bookmarked for a few years now. On the left side, left click on the Wind Speed button and a drop down menu appears. From the drop down select “200hpa, 12,000m” and you can see the jet stream at 39,000ft.
Thanks for sharing, Kate. I really like this site!
Accurate 10 Day Weather Forecasts from Weather-Forecast.com
Accurate 10 Day Weather Forecasts for thousands of places around the World. We provide detailed Weather Forecasts over a 10 day period updated four times a day. Our interactive weather maps can be customized to show forecasts of temperature, weather and wind. You can also overlay pressure and live weather observations on maps of any country. Select our weather today forecast pages to get 3 hourly detail and live weather reports. Browse our weather photo albums showing a great selection of weather extremes from around the world including hurricanes, floods, storms, tornadoes and major snow events.
https://www.weather-forecast.com/