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Re:Hurricane Matthew Visualization by bsdetector on Friday October 07, 2016 @07:10AM (#12659695)
https://earth.nullschool.net/

This is the oldest of this kind of map that I know of. It includes source on the About page.

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Re:Hurricane Matthew Visualization by mikk14 on Friday October 07, 2016 @03:47PM (#12663436)
It is worth noting that the inventors of this particular type of visualization for wind data were Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg (former IBM, now Google, as far as I can remember). A pity that they are rarely mentioned.

http://hint.fm/wind/

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Re:Hurricane Matthew Visualization by athenot on Friday October 07, 2016 @02:01PM (#12662622)
This one seems much more efficient, at least on Safari. In contrast, the OP link pegs CPU to 100%.
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Re:Hurricane Matthew Visualization by 15thandwhatever on Friday October 07, 2016 @03:09PM (#12663172)
It's using your laptop fan to simulate the sounds of the hurricane.
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