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World weather globe: storms, wind and rain round the planet for the next 7 days

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Clouds + rain · model forecastmm/h

Clouds and rain are model forecasts, not satellite or radar images.

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A global view. A UK perspective.

Everything on this globe is read from files FloodRadar has already collected and processed. Opening the page asks no weather service for anything.

Weather
ECMWF IFS open data on a global 0.25° grid: 10 m wind, wind at 250 hPa, sea-level pressure, 2 m temperature, cloud cover, rain rate and gusts, every 6 hours for seven days.
Moisture rivers and rain total
Two more fields of the same ECMWF run: the water vapour in the whole depth of the air (the long plumes are atmospheric rivers), and the rain the model expects from the start of its run to the time shown. The rain total is a model figure on a 0.25° grid: it is lower than the hills will see, and it is not a river forecast.
Ocean temperatures
NOAA OISST daily sea-surface temperature anomalies, as collected for FloodRadar’s El Niño tracker.
El Niño & SOI
NOAA Climate Prediction Center: the weekly Niño 3.4 anomaly and the monthly standardised Southern Oscillation Index. These have different observation dates.
Named tropical systems
NHC advisory positions and official forecast tracks, and current GDACS cyclone bulletins. Advisory markers have their own times and do not move with the forecast slider.
Modelled storm tracking
Pressure minima under 1010 hPa in each model time, matched between 6-hour steps by nearness. Tracks can switch or end when lows merge. “Winds nearby” is the strongest 10 m model wind near a centre, not a gust. A low moving closer is not a forecast of UK impact.
How to read it
The jet layer is wind at 250 hPa (roughly 10 km up), not wind at ground level. Forecast temperature is a temperature, not a departure from normal: only the ocean layer compares observations with a long-term average. Ocean observations stay fixed as you move through the forecast. Between two model times the picture is a blend, and says so.

One model run cannot establish how unusual a pattern is, and this is not a warning service: for those see flood warnings. El Niño shifts seasonal odds; it does not predict individual UK storms.

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Forecast data: based on data and products of ECMWF (CC BY 4.0, source www.ecmwf.int), processed by FloodRadar; ECMWF accepts no liability for this use. Tropical cyclone bulletins: NOAA/NWS National Hurricane Center (US public domain; no endorsement by NOAA is implied) and GDACS, © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Ocean and climate observations: NOAA (US public domain). Earth image: Solar System Scope (CC BY 4.0), based on NASA imagery; a static picture of land and sea, the clouds and rain over it come from the model. Globe drawn with Three.js (MIT). An experimental FloodRadar picture, not an official product of any of these bodies.