Excellent wind forecasting tools

[sukhdev]

Since its raining today and we are  stuck indoors, any of you who havent come across this stuff, check out Ulf Petersen's excellent weather page. Make sure you download his weather tool; you get an animation of local weather radar as well as the South east asia wind map.

You can link to it either from Bluefinz home page or links page or directly to :

 http://ulfpettersson.com/wind/wind.asp

[ulfp]

I still have some hope of wind today, but with a few more rainy days (and some more creative energy), I will fix a version where you can personally setup/configure which images to animate yourself. This way the tool becomes useful for any image that is cyclically updated on the web (i.e. could also be used for other areas of Asia/World).

Until I fix the personal setup/configuration, you can send me an email/message about other weather related images, and I will try to add them.

I got the idea from some US Weather Sites (that provides the animation direct on the web), and I have suggested to Singapore NEA to do the same. Until the local weather services get their act together, I guess that this is the second best thing...

[sukhdev]

Ulf, great work none the less.

One thing I can add from looking at the radar maps for past few years; during the south west monsoon (may to sept), best wind seems to come from storms moving left to right or vice versa between Bintan and Batam. Storms directly over us or north of us don't seem to bring much wind. Anyone else comment?