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If there is a cooler way to see the earth’s air currents on the move, we don’t know what it is.

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Have a look at the earth and its ever-shifting winds, pixelated and animated in neon glory as the Earth Wind Map. Credit for this remarkable project goes to software developer Cameron Beccario (@cambecc). It’s a streaming view of our planet’s shifting air currents—updated every three hours—based on raw data from the National Weather Service’s Global Forecast System.

Click here to see it. Enjoy.