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Happy New Year!
This animation shows a full, one year time lapse animation of surface winds from Jan 1, 2018 until Jan 1, 2019. The data come from the National ...Weather Service's GFS numerical weather model (https://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/index.php?branch=GFS). Blue colors represent slower winds. Greens and yellows are faster winds. Streamlines show the direction of the wind in each frame of the animation.
This animation took 48 hours to render as 3,000 individual frames encoded to video. See YouTube for the 4K version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEoPNLrN7Eg
A couple things to notice:
1. Look for the "Roaring Forties", the strong westerly winds circling the southern hemisphere, especially as they intensify around June.
2. Watch as typhoons (as they are known in the Northern Pacific) and tropical cyclones (as they are called in the Southern Pacific) spin up and intensify. Watch how many of them emerge from the Intertropical Convergence Zone.
Today's surface winds: https://earth.nullschool.net
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