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Tracking hurricane hunters in Google Earth
Over the years, we’ve shown you a variety of great ways to use Google Earth to track hurricanes. While much of that data comes from weather satellites, some of it comes from “hurricane hunters” that...
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Tracking Hurricane Isaac in Google Earth
There are a lot of great tools online to help track storms such as Hurricane Isaac. Google Maps Mania listed a few, and James Fee posted a sizable list. Adding to the toolset, Google has now launched...
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Google Earth A to Z: Weather
Google Earth has a variety of built-in layers that give you some amazing ways to view the current weather around the world. Simply by turning on the [Clouds] and [Radar] layers inside of the main...
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Tracking Hurricane Sandy in Google Earth
With Hurricane Sandy hitting the Bahamas and heading toward the United States, Google has set up their Crisis Response Map to try to help with the situation. The map includes various tools such as...
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Google releases first batch of post-Sandy imagery
Google has just released some imagery of the northeastern United States post-Hurricane Sandy, and it includes many miles of shoreline in New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. The imagery is remarkably...
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Visualizing 14,000 ski lifts with Google Earth and Fusion Tables
There are a lot of weather sites on the internet, but a new site has hit the scene and is off to a great start — Uber Weather. Uber Weather has most of the features you’d expect from a weather site,...
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Predicting volcanic ash with Google Earth
The “Puff-Volcanic Ash Tracking Model” is a system of Google Maps and Google Earth KML files that help predict the ash patterns for volcanoes around the world. As explained in their user manual: Puff...
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Tracking Winter Storm Euclid with Google Earth
A major winter storm is ripping across the eastern United States right now, with blizzard warnings stretching 730 continuous miles. Google Earth offers some great tools for tracking storms such as...
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Tracking Winter Storm Nemo with Google Earth
The forecast models still aren’t in complete agreement, but it appears that Winter Storm Nemo could break some records when it hits the northeastern United States later today and tomorrow. It’s likely...
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Moore, Oklahoma in Google Earth
As Google often does after horrible events like the tornadoes in Oklahoma this week, Google has created a Crisis Response Page to assist with the relief effort. The map includes a wealth of...
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Imagery from the Moore, Oklahoma tornado now in Google Earth
As they did not long after Hurricane Sandy struck the northeast United States last fall, Google has just pushed out new imagery from the devastating tornado that recently hit Moore, Oklahoma. The...
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Google publishes Crisis Response map for Boulder, Colorado
Similar to maps that Google has released in the past for places like Alberta and Moore, they’ve just published a Crisis Response map to assist with the flooding in Boulder, Colorado. You can view the...
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Tracking Tropical Storm Karen with Google Earth
While Tropical Storm Karen is continuing to weaken as it approaches land, it is never wise to ignore a storm of this size if you’re in the path. If you’d like to keep an eye on Karen using Google...
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The Google Earth Climate Change, Pollution and Privacy Viewer
Google Earth is an amazing tool for studying and sharing information about our planet’s climate. Frank first shared a climate-related story back in 2006 (UNEP’s New Environment Layer in Google Earth)...
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Viewing the polar vortex in Google Earth
For those of you shivering in the United States, you may have read that a “polar vortex” is to blame for the shockingly low temperatures. For a new look at that phenomenon, the folks at NOAA have...
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The tornado damage in Mayflower, Arkansas
The NASA Earth Observatory site brings us amazing images from time to time (such as some of these), and they’re back with some fresh imagery from the tornadoes that have ripped across the central...
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Everything about the El Nino Zone in Google Earth
We’ve all heard about El Nino over the years and how it can affect weather patterns, but it can be a bit tricky to understand the relationship between all of the elements involved in it. According to...
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Tracking the weather with Google Earth
With severe storms again rolling across the central US, I thought it’d be a good time to revisit the ways that Google Earth can help you track the weather. Google Earth has a variety of built-in layers...
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Hurricane season is upon us
Hurricane season is here, and Google has recently put out a helpful blog posts with tips for staying safe. Specifically, they suggest three things: Make sure your phone will receive Public Alerts...
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DigitalGlobe helping to track forest fires
DigitalGlobe is one of the leading providers of satellite imagery for Google Earth, and now they’re teaming up with the World Resources Institute to track fires across southeast Asia via their new...
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