Nicolas Garcia Belmonte, author of the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit, mapped 72 hours of weather data from 1,200 stations across the country.
Gathering the data from the National Weather Service was pretty interesting, I didn’t know USA had so many weather stations! The visualization shows wind direction encoded in line angles, wind speed encoded in line lengths and disk radius, and temperature encoded in hue.
Press play, and watch it glow. You can also easily switch between symbols: discs with lines, lines only, or filled circles.
Only have a picture, no video. Using Chrome
no play button. chrome, PC. didn’t see a play button on the linked article either.
thanks
Direct link to animation:
http://www.senchalabs.org/philogl/PhiloGL/examples/winds/
This video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXMl-ht9LXI&feature=youtube_gdata_player shows one century of global temperature anomalies from weather stations with a similar style
Glad to see Mt Washington (in NH, large circle top right) still whipping it up with mega wind speeds. It still holds the highest recorded wind speed on land anywhere … ever.