The Weather Outlook

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Brian Gaze
17 May 2026 17:41:13
This is an amazing new app released by ECMWF Copernicus. It enables you to view the weather hour by hour around the globe, starting in 1940. 

Start here:

https://weather-replay.climate.copernicus.eu/ 

Documentation here:

https://climate.copernicus.eu/weather-replay-your-time-machine-revisit-past-weather 


Brian Gaze

Berkhamsted

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Retron
17 May 2026 17:46:42

This is an amazing new app released by ECMWF Copernicus. It enables you to view the weather hour by hour around the globe, starting in 1940. 

Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 

Interesting, but by gum it's chuggy - only a few frames per second as you drag the globe around - at least in Firefox. (This is on admittedly ageing i9-9900KS, 8 cores at 5GHz and a GeForce RTX 2080Ti, but in comparison it handles games like Warcraft, Diablo 4 and Doom Eternal perfectly well at 4K, 60fps!)

The hourly interval is useful, especially for T2Ms, but TBH given the interpolation that goes on I'll probably just stick with MC for the broader picture. 


Leysdown, north Kent

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