[4K] 2018: full, one year time lapse of surface winds over the North Atlantic

This animation shows a full, one year time lapse animation of surface winds from Jan 1, 2018 until Jan 1, 2019, over the North Atlantic. The data come from the National Weather Service's GFS numerical weather model (www.emc.ncep.n.... Blue colors represent slower winds. Greens and yellows are faster winds. Streamlines show the direction of the wind in each frame of the animation.
This is one of the first 4K time lapse animations generated from earth.nullschool.net. The animation took 48 hours to render as 3,000 individual frames encoded to video.
Notice how a few hurricanes appear in July but then August is quiet, only for things to really pick up in September. Also notice how fall and winter bring massive storm systems to the upper North Atlantic (Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, the UK, Norway).
Today's surface winds: earth.nullscho...

[@Baxxter101]

Heat rising... This is beautiful. I love how you can see the change of tilt of the earth in relationship to the sun change the wind directions throughout the year.

[@Cl4rendon]

Love that transition phase in the northern hemisphere when one can see the troughs dipping way far south from Feb to April until the trade wind belt shifts up further north.

[@AdamChristensen]

Mesmerising.

[@enerbee1354]

Wow! Should be available on your site-a tool to generate a personal animation. ;)

[@nielsdaemen]

Could you please make one of these showing 850hPa temperatures?
Or tell me how to make my own

[@scarakus]

All that wind heading East in the North Atlantic, it's amazing how anybody ever discovered North America.

[@LeFraudHasChokedInSIXFinals]

Good point, but do we know the 15th Century explorers exact route, because farther south the prevailing winds are almost continually flowing east to west which would have carried them from North Africa to the Caribbean.

[@ameyajoshi5144]

@Scarakus
, You do know that North America was already inhabited by humans, right?

[@scarakus]

@@ameyajoshi5144 Yup, I meant the Europeans.

[@SockyNoob]

Love seeing the hurricanes in the middle

[@islandmonusvi]

Crazy good…

[@newgamedk]

Nice work!

[@sharpitar6674]

Temperature next?

[@PariahSojourner]

Hurricane season starts at 1:15.

[@Hannymcfee]

1:22 Florence

[@profjdyme]

Poor baby hurricanes get swallowed badly by the N Atlantic airs.

[@renaudboyaval2192]

👍

[@gamesl8156]

එක කෙහෙමද😔😁😁😁😁😨😫😢😭😭

[@brahmamsoftwarewetyuioasdd9784]

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[@MilesBellas]

UK = perpetual buffeting