Wind Layer Animation?

[SBitz]

Looking at the eerie sky color a while ago I got to wondering two things:
1. Could I create an animation of the aviation winds aloft?
2. Would anyone want or be able to watch it?

I've answered the first question with a bit of work, but only you can answer the second question. If you watch it successfully and find it of any value, I'd appreciate you letting me know. It's far easier for me to just look at this stuff myself, and share the occasional screencap like I've been doing. But if enough people can and want to watch it I might do it again if the wind forecast changes a lot.

All that said, here are three animations starting at 1pm 12/8. First is the surface wind forecast, second is 3,000' and last is 6,000' where you can get a sense of that monster high pressure area that's now drifted up to offshore of the Bay Area. They're H.264 MP4 files sized about 200-300k each, and I can't put them directly into the email so I'm trying them as file attachments.

[SBitz]

No comments so maybe not worth the effort. For more context if you're among the handful who viewed this, the animation jumps hourly from 1pm today to 8am tomorrow morning. Of course it's showing the forecast for general wind direction and velocity and the accuracy decreases further into the future. There can obviously be calm air or stronger gusts but the range of predicted wind speeds for each hour is 0-15kts for no color, 15-20kts for light blue and 20-30 for dark blue. If you can make them out, there are little arrows on the black lines showing the wind direction (generally offshore for the fire area at the surface). Again, the brown area in the 3,000 foot elevation wind indicates mountains that go above that elevation. The main risk is embers rising from a mountain slope surface, being carried over an unburned area by stronger wind aloft, and dropping down to start a spot fire.

[Section Make8R]

Not bad...too small though, for me.....Here is a link to WindyTV, which sounds stupid, but is actually a good tool for people like myself. (amateur)  I set up wind field in this link for 2000 ft, but you can pretty much go from sea level to 10 miles up,using aircraft data.

User controls are to the right. Triple dot panel opens up layering options. Site is fun to use and pull back for large view of various regions of the world and large scale systems.  It "appears" accurate,but I really have no idea....seems to match local conditions though.

https://www.windy.com/overlays?gfs,950h,34.153,-119.844,8,m:eCvacPS

[SBitz]

Wow thanks! I'll check it out. One more post to do in the Friday Fire topic first...

[SBitz]

Last for tonight, here's a look at the centers of all IR satellite fire detections in the last six hours as of 9:30pm. Again, some of these are low-res satellites so the actual fire can be anywhere in the area around a red dot. In fact, some of the dots may be sats of different accuracies detecting the same fire but placing it at a different center point due to differences in sat accuracy. Anyway, none of the recent detections are anywhere near the SB County line.