Cool real-time wind map of United States

Thanks to Climate Progress, I was turned on to what's described as the "coolest wind map ever."

Well, since I've only seen one wind map in my life -- the one they're talking about -- I'll have to take the scientists' word on that.

Indeed, it's intriguing to see a countrywide flowing view of what the wind is doing today.

The map creators advise using the Chrome browser to view the map, which I use, but even so I discovered that after that web page was open for a few minutes, my MacBook's fan went noisily on. Checking the Mac activity monitor, Chrome was sucking up a lot of processor juice. 

So if your computer slows down after viewing the map, close that browser tab.

Comments

[Ken Hannegan]

This is a cool wind map...kinda hard to fathom how the whole big picture works. It would be really nice to be able to see layers of wind....high level global vs lower level local wind patterns