Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Windy planet...

Windy planet...  A live, interactive virtual globe that shows the wind around the entire Earth in real time.  You can tilt and rotate the globe by dragging it around with your mouse...

There are lots of interesting things to observe as you look at different parts of the world.  One that jumped out at me: why the early New World explorers needed to sail south to the west coast of Africa before turning their bows toward the Americas – and why they ended up first in the Caribbean...

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