Cameron Beccario created a beautiful live visualisation of the Earth’s wind, ocean and other weather patterns, using publicly available data. The full source code is all available at via Github – so a school could set up their own server for this and do all kinds of funky work!
Live site is up at earth.nullschool.net – the link will get you zoomed in to Australia but you can pan and zoom to anywhere you like!
As I write this post you can see Cyclone Marcia (category 5) coming into the Central Queensland coast, and also Cyclone Lam east of Darwin in the Northern Territory. I took a snapshot which you can see above, but the live site is even prettier with the motion.
My grade 4 son's review is below. I think he liked seeing the patterns it made. It was just a…
Brad