Cool Visualisation of the Earth's wind

Here's a visualisation I just came across showing the current wind speeds and directions across the Earth. According to its about page it shows global weather conditions that are "forecast by supercomputers" and "updated every three hours".  There's more information on the site's github page, the gist of which is that it pulls weather data from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction, NOAA / National Weather Service and displays it in your browser. The map below shows the wind above Britain as it is at the moment (it certainly feels pretty windy up here in Edinburgh!).

Britain on Dec. the 18th

It should work in any modern browser, so go have a look and see what you think. It'd be interesting to see how easy it is to show other types of information, e.g. snow cover, sea ice or global temperatures, using the same infrastructure. One of the key aspects of climate science is communicating results to as wide an audience as possible, and graphically rich interactive tools like this one can only help capture people's imaginations and give them a feel for what the Earth is doing.