Windyty is a gorgeous weather map that’s overlaid with current temperature conditions, wind patterns, and can be customized to show as much or as little weather information as you deem necessary. You ...

Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg have created Wind Map, an interactive map which traces the course and speed of wind in near real-time. Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg have created Wind Map ...

A new global wind power map has quantified global wind power and may help planners place turbines in locations that can maximize power from the winds and provide widely available low-cost energy.

Wind turbines have only a tenuous link to most Americans’ daily lives because wind farms generate less than 5 percent of all of the electricity produced today. As reducing greenhouse gas emissions to ...

The "Wind Map" is a new website by Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg that animates and visualizes surface wind data, making it easily observable. It serves as a creative data visualization tool ...

Sometime before 1686, when Edmond Halley sketched the wind on what is known as the first ever meteorological map of the world, he made small, comet-like strokes with his pen. To Halley, the “sharp end ...

The US National Weather Service’s Global Forecast System keeps track of the world’s weather. It’s an incredibly valuable repository of information, but its data, shown in DayGlo charts peppered with ...

The amount of wind power that theoretically could be generated in the United States tripled in the newest assessment of the nation's wind resources. Current wind technology deployed in ...

This small screengrab of a map of the Earth's winds circling the globe doesn't do justice to the big animated versions you can see here and here. The maps were created by Tokyo-based software engineer ...

PAHO/WHO, together with Applied Research Associates, a North American institute, and participants from different Caribbean countries, have created maps that show wind hazards on Caribbean islands and ...