Earth, Wind and…Neon?

rick 01/25/14

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

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.