Malawi Map LabForecast rasters · 1 of 8

Wind particles from a forecast

GFS 10 m wind is stored as a raster-array tileset with one band per forecast step and drawn by a raster-particle layer. The slider moves through 57 steps, from the analysis to 168 hours ahead, every 3 hours.

Forecast hour+0 h

Particles per tile4,000

1.5 m/swind speed18+ m/s

Where it fits

This is the target for WRF output at DCCMS. Upload a NetCDF run to Mapbox Tiling Service with a recipe, and a forecast dashboard can animate wind and rainfall for every forecast hour.

Built with

raster-array
raster-particle
globe

Archived run

Mapbox's public example tileset of one GFS run. Not a live forecast.