Many weather forecast agencies around the world use the GFS weather model from NCEP and sometimes other forecasters create something which is pretty darn beautiful and the guys at Windyty have done just that.
The data in the charts is exactly the same data which you see on Metcheck, however using the streamline model you can view loads of weather variables on a chart with lovely squiggly wind arrows moving around.
It goes without saying that we owe huge thanks to the guys at Windyty as well as Cameron Beccario at Earthschool as well as developers at leaflet, ESRI, all who work tirelessly to make weather data beautiful and free.
The variables you can select are :-
Surface Wind Speed - Wind speed/direction at 2m above ground Surface Gust Wind- Wind gust speed/direction at 2m above ground Storm Dir/Speed - Wind speed/direction at 8000m Surface Temperature - Temperature at 2m above ground Clouds / Rain Jet Stream - Wind speed/direction at 250mb
You can use the range slider to select any date out to 240 hours in the future in 3 hour intervals.
Some rather nice Spring weather across the UK this week, but into Thursday and a col moves in across the UK bringing a risk of thunderstorms..
Added : 10 hours ago
Last of Spring snow in the Alps and Pyrenees, the West Pacific where tropical waves developing could well become more organised next week and the UK with some hazy sunshine...
Added : 7 hours ago
Rain still affecting parts of the Northwest this morning with drier and clearer skies to the East and some overnight mist patches too...
Added : 18 hours ago
Want to see where precipitation is dropping out of the sky right now across the UK? No worries, check out the 15 minute radar below which loops through the last 6 hours of information.
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