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Best Storm Tracking and Weather Tools for Google Earth

August 15, 2007

Weather tools in Google EarthWe now have two named tropical storms in the Atlantic (Dean and Erin), a tropical storm in the East Pacific (Flossie) – near Hawaii, and a typhoon in the west Pacific (Sepat) . 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 (thanks to the network link). Weather data is one of my favorite applications in Google Earth 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 the very best weather tools for Google Earth which GEB has 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. You may want to turn only one layer on at a time – these layers weren’t designed to all be turned on at once. Although, some of the layers are complimentary (like current lightning strikes with clouds or storms turned on).
Right now the collection includes: two global hurricane tracking tools, global cloud maps, current global lightning strikes animation (from GuiWeather.com, severe weather warning data and radar data from NOAA for the US, TopicWatch by Paul Seabury, a large collection of weather image overlays from TropicalAtlantic, 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 the latest storms around the world. You will see the storms’ tracks, forecasted paths, current positions, and the red dots are nearby web cams. The position of the storms, when a hurricane, will show it’s storm strength (level 1, 2, etc.).
These tools were put together by a variety of people (some are weather professionals, others are weather hobbyists). But, these are the best. GEB will continue to add more storm and weather tools to the network link periodically, but if you save this network link, you will automatically see them added.
Here are more details about the weather tools in the collection:

  • Hurricanes – Live positions
  • Current Global Lightning Animation from GuiWeather.com
  • 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

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Frank Taylor started the Google Earth Blog in July, 2005 shortly after Google Earth was first released. He has worked with 3D computer graphics and VR for many years and was very impressed with this exciting product. Frank completed a 5.5 year circumnavigation of the earth by sailboat in June 2015 which you can read about at Tahina Expedition, and is a licensed pilot, backpacker, diver, and photographer.

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  1. Aaron W. VanWieren says

    August 16, 2007 at 8:47 am

    Cool stuff. Don’t know if you saw the write up on this hurricane tracker built with the google api on planet geospatial yesterday, but if you havn’t I would suggest checking it out.
    http://www.ibiseye.com/
    Aaron W. VanWieren
    http://www.gisdevcafe.com

  2. Aaron W. VanWieren says

    August 16, 2007 at 8:53 am

    Also,
    I think Dean has been bumped up to a level 1 hurricane, need to look at NOAA firs.
    AAron W. VanWieren
    http://www.gisdevcafe.com

  3. phat says

    August 18, 2007 at 8:59 pm

    Great idea. Using tools found here, I discovered that I was 25 miles east of Katrina’s centerine path . But, I have a major problem with the fact that GE thinks my default browser is IE. boo!
    Can I change that? (GE v4.1.7087.5048 (beta))

  4. dscm says

    November 7, 2007 at 7:25 am

    Why some of the items here says that it was an invalid token? I can’t open them. Pls give me some answer on how to fix it.

  5. Mikhail says

    May 5, 2008 at 1:16 pm

    Hi! Could you review of our mashup? It’s based on Google Maps and we collect weather data from several sources, including personal weather stations and data from our users.
    MeteoStone



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