NOAA WeatherView

www.nnvl.noaa.gov/weatherview/index.html

NOAA weatherView is a new tool designed by the NOAA Visualization Lab to provide an interactive experience with NOAA weather models : lets you display wind, temperature, precipitation and other models to see weather patterns around the globe.

 The NOAA gives us the example of Typhoon Soudelor, which passed over Taiwan yesterday.

All of these data are also available from the NOAA Operational Model Archive and Distribution System built by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information - Climate.
http://go.usa.gov/3sKWz

 Example of  3-D animated image of downscaled Global Forecast System (GFS) model data showing Hurricane Katrina making landfall on August 29, 2005.

This image was generated with the Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers (VAPOR) tool and ImageMagick.

Links :

• Gizmodo : Watch summer's extreme weather move around Earth with this animated map