Global wind map
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 7:06 am
Recently came across this website with a Google Earth type thingee but showing wind speeds and patterns:
http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wi ... ,-6.00,295
You can see all the frigid arctic air from a low over Iceland moving straight across the northern Atlantic right over the UK, any wonder your winters are so bloody cold! My step father is in Wales now on holidays, his first Christmas in the UK since he emigrated when he was 20, and all he does is complain about how bitterly cold it is! 50 years in the tropics has spoiled him!
Also the southern hemisphere cyclone season is in full flight with Severe Tropical Cyclone Bruce to the west of Australia in the Indian Ocean, along with his little friend Tropical Cyclone Amara further west near Madagascar. If you zoom into the Timor Sea between Timor and northern Australia you can just make out the beginnings of rotation which is supposed to develop into a tropical cyclone (TC Christine I think it will be), that could possibly affect us here in Darwin on Boxing Day.
In the same region and worth noting is the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone, otherwise known as the Indian-Australian monsoon in this part of the workd, starting to flow moist air down through SE Asia before colliding with the trade winds from the southern hemisphere. The monsoon is supposed to reach us within a couple of days so we can expect a wet end to an otherwise dry December.
If you look at the northern hemisphere in the Pacific Ocean you can see a big swirling low east of Japan and a big high pressure system to the west of Canada with a strong zone of convergence right in the middle where their winds meet. Id imagine that it will be very wet and wild there right now... Fascinating stuff for weather nerds like me!
Of course since its in real time those features will change with every day.
http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wi ... ,-6.00,295
You can see all the frigid arctic air from a low over Iceland moving straight across the northern Atlantic right over the UK, any wonder your winters are so bloody cold! My step father is in Wales now on holidays, his first Christmas in the UK since he emigrated when he was 20, and all he does is complain about how bitterly cold it is! 50 years in the tropics has spoiled him!
Also the southern hemisphere cyclone season is in full flight with Severe Tropical Cyclone Bruce to the west of Australia in the Indian Ocean, along with his little friend Tropical Cyclone Amara further west near Madagascar. If you zoom into the Timor Sea between Timor and northern Australia you can just make out the beginnings of rotation which is supposed to develop into a tropical cyclone (TC Christine I think it will be), that could possibly affect us here in Darwin on Boxing Day.
In the same region and worth noting is the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone, otherwise known as the Indian-Australian monsoon in this part of the workd, starting to flow moist air down through SE Asia before colliding with the trade winds from the southern hemisphere. The monsoon is supposed to reach us within a couple of days so we can expect a wet end to an otherwise dry December.
If you look at the northern hemisphere in the Pacific Ocean you can see a big swirling low east of Japan and a big high pressure system to the west of Canada with a strong zone of convergence right in the middle where their winds meet. Id imagine that it will be very wet and wild there right now... Fascinating stuff for weather nerds like me!
Of course since its in real time those features will change with every day.
Been having a play