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If anyone wants to see where it is, the hurricane's moved further up north away from the buoy's location.

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/ort...

That's a great visualization. Reminded me of one posted to hacker news a few weeks ago that let's you cycle through visualizations of cloud cover, atmospheric pressure, precipitation etc in addition to wind:

https://www.windyty.com/?20.551,-74.487,5

I really love seeing all these conditions moving in concert at a global scale. As someone who's never experienced a hurricane, it makes the effects feel much less abstract.

Any idea what he used to make that? Super impressive

windytv is a fork of earth [0], which is open source [1] and made with D3.js [2], I'm guessing windytv is also using d3.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12415777

[1] https://github.com/cambecc/earth

[2] https://earth.nullschool.net/about.html

Click the "Earth" link, there are much more options hidden.

What is this site about?

Current wind speed at surface level on an orthographic projection. You can basically read out the URL ;)

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