One of my commentators  asked if there was a way to look at the wind patterns over the whole earth.

An excellent question.

So, I looked around and found WorldWind.  After playing with it for a while, and adding a plug in, it is showing me world cloud patterns.

Are these accurate to now?

I’m using data from NRL Monterey “Real Time” Weather v.1.1.

I chose the last two days of cloud in the Eastern Pacific. It gave me cloud patterns. Obviously this is not my field but it looks like if there was a meltdown you might very well be able to see a visible cloud. If the radiation was too dispersed to see it, you could still follow the cloud patterns.

If anybody knows more about this than I do or has better web sites for this kind of thing. Tell me. I’ll put them up.

James Pilant