Link: Google Earth Blog.
Weather and Storm Tracking Tools for Google Earth
"The Hurricane season has officially begun. And the second named storm - Tropical Depression Barry - is currently providing much needed wetness to a dry southeastern US. One of Google Earth's most powerful features is the ability to pull in real-time information from other sites and overlay the information for visualization. Weather data is one of my favorite applications of this ability. Imagine pulling in the latest satellite photos, radar animations, hurricane tracking, live web cams on the ground, sea surface temperature analysis, etc.
" Well, you can do all that with the set of tools I've bundled together into this: the weather and storm tracking tools collection . Simply drag this network link into your Places folder to keep it handy. It won't take up space until you turn it on. It first loads several folders of weather tools you can explore.
"Right now it includes: a global hurricane tracking tool, global cloud maps, severe weather warning data and radar data from NOAA for the US, weather observations for the US from WeatherBonk, a real-time day/night viewing tool, and the global annual lightning flash rate map from NASA. Turn on the Hurricanes - Live Positions link to see T.D. Barry's current position. You will see the past track, forecasted path, current position, and the red dots are nearby web cams. The position o the storm, when a hurricane, will show it's storm strength (level 1, 2, etc.). These tools were put together by a variety of people in the Google Earth Community. I will add more storm and weather tools to the network link periodically, but if you save this network link, you will automatically see them added. Read about each here:
Hurricanes - Live positions
Global Cloud Map
NOAA Severe Weather
Weather Bonk - For Google Maps, but GE file available
Real-Time Day and Night Earth
Annual Lightning Flash Rate
