14 Years of US Weather - May 2, 1997 - Dec 31, 2011

This animation covers over 14 years of United States weather. It is composed of 120,900 individual frames spaced 1 hour apart.

Quicktime was unable to stitch this many images so I had to process it in blocks of 10,000 frames and then edit the individual videos together.

The frame rate is 60 frames (hours) per second, however, youtube only displays 30 frames per second so you are only seeing half of the data as a result. I will re-upload it if youtube ever allows 60fps video.

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  Science & Technology

[Jauwp]

What's the name of the music playing in the background?

[oisiaa]

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.5 in Eb Major

[NoMoreVanilla]

02:56 03 Sep 1998 Hurricane Earl (TX) 05:08 29 Aug 1999 Hurricane Dennis (FL) 05:25 16 Oct 1999 Hurricane Irene (Cat 2, NC) 09:10 05 Jun 2001 TS Allison (TX) 14:21 18 Sep 2003 Hurricane Isabel (Cat 2, NC) 16:33 04 Sep 2004 Hurricane Frances (Cat 4, FL) 16:41 26 Sep 2004 Hurricane Jeanne (Cat 3, FL) same path! 18:51 26 Aug 2005 Hurricane Katrina (Cat 5, LA) 19:02 24 Sep 2005 Hurricane Rita (Cat 5, TX/LA) 26:04 13 Sep 2008 Hurricane Ike (Cat 2, TX) 32:46 27 Aug 2011 Hurricane Irene (Cat 3, NC)

[BazzleJoe]

-- Meteorologist here. The blue flare-ups you see at 26:25 and throughout many parts of the video are the radar beam getting bent toward the ground by cooling temperatures after sunset. Check out "Anomalous Propagation" on Wikipedia for more info. There are methods in post-processing that can remove these distracting flare-ups from a national radar mosaic, but sometimes (like at 26:25) it seems like they flip the switch and don't filter them.

[oisiaa]

Sorry. That's all I had to work with. The NWS changed their format.

[bratb2094]

Its interesting how clouds and wind change direction to avoid mountains in the middle, middle west...

[Don Noel]

That is one VERY cool video! Thanks for posting.

[uysugs]

Where did you get this data? I would be interested in recent nowrad archived data.

[dcacnc]

H.A.A.R.P

[Kaitlyn Dupell]

amazing!



[riley windham]

radar reflectivity from all the radars

[ColonelBatman]

@32:01, the major April 27th Tornado Outbreak. One of the scariest days of my life. Everything around my area looked like we had been bombed.