http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=-223.61,-28.52,414

Well I find it of interest.

Very impressive. But it needs some windy sound effects.

That is pretty damn good, I’m going to check if they got the doldrums in the right place, doesn’t look right at first blush.

I think Wiki’s coverage of ‘doldrums’ is piss poor, it seems to want to link it to the Intertropical Convergence Zone and then goes off about hazards and how it caused the crash of the Airbus over the Atlantic.
It’s discombobulated to say the least.

That is quite fantastically impressive

In any case, the plural is doldra

Maybe these maps in the future might help guide aircraft around wind pockets etc

or wind shears, that kind of thing

with some way of speeding up wind observations and communicating it to the aircraft, maybe giving pilots a 3d view of wind patterns in front and around them etc

microburst radar

microburst/windshear

It’s strange how there’s so little wind over Asia and so much over the oceans. I’d expected that, but not that strong a difference.

The view looking down on Antarctica reminds me of Saturn’s hexagon. There are roughly 6 vortices around the south pole.

mollwollfumble said:

It’s strange how there’s so little wind over Asia and so much over the oceans. I’d expected that, but not that strong a difference.

The view looking down on Antarctica reminds me of Saturn’s hexagon. There are roughly 6 vortices around the south pole.

Isn’t that something to do with surface tension being minimally present over soil?