Teaching Tips

• Graphic can be used to teach a number of concepts in meteorology and severe storms.
• Go through the wind speed key at the bottom of the graphic.
• Could be used in a weather unit as a dynamic visualization to demonstrate the interconnections among wind energy, Coriolis force, pressure, temperature, and precipitation.
• The animation would be particularly interesting to watch during a major storm, such as a hurricane or cyclone.

About the Content

• This is a beautifully designed, animated map that displays multiple weather conditions for locations all over the world using a model provided by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.
• Several different meteorological data can be displayed via a visual menu. The animation invites in-depth exploration.
• Comments from expert scientist:
  Scientific strengths:
  This resource is great. It's an extraordinary tool for visualizing several meteorological quantities, with a really good interface. I can imagine several different educational applications for this.

About the Pedagogy

• Definitely has the "WOW' factor for students.
• This sophisticated visualization can be used to show various weather features as well as to analyze the formation and dynamics of severe storms.
• Each variable has a color-coded range band index (such as wind speed, rain or snowfall, temperature, etc). Optional overlays are provided.
• Wind speed and direction is the default display.

Technical Details/Ease of Use

• Stunning visual display. Visual quality and graphics are excellent.
• There is also an app available for download that is also very well developed, so this can be viewed on a mobile device.
• Data is updated in intervals of 6 hours to 5 days depending on the source.

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