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Weather Data is Beautiful

June 23, 2014 Keenan Brugh

Today's tech post shows some of the serene beauty of weather data around the world. First up, we have a live lightning strike tracker submitted on reddit by chakalakasp. Sensors placed in various locations can triangulate the exact location of lightning strikes using timestamps - similar to how GPS works. Click the image or hyperlink below to check it out:  

Screen Shot 2014-06-23 at 10.01.30 AM

http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en&page_0=30

 

Second, theres a globe that shows the speed of wind across the surface of the earth.

worldwind

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-100.82,30.07,495 

 

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