I’m trying to rediscover a satellite imagery website I stumbled upon a while back; it had a scrolable map/globe with a variety of views, including visible clouds, infrared clouds, radar storms and so on; there were a bunch of combo boxes and radio buttons below the image to allow the user to select the mode, date, location etc.
AFAIK, it had more or less up-to-date weather info.
What site am I talking about?
Not sure but you can use maps.google.com or better yet download google earth which has fast scrolling as it downloads the maps after the scroll.
Thanks; I have google earth, but I’m looking for one that shows cloud cover on specific dates - I’m sure it’s out there somewhere.
A good place to start looking might be the various government meteorology websites. [url=http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/satellite/]this is the satallite image section of the UK met office.
Sounds like a lot of the options I remember in NASA’s World Wind… Like Google Earth, but not.
This isn’t the site the OP is looking for, but I’ll throw it in:
That is pretty cool. Thanks!
For very high resolution visible imagery, try this site (sorry for hijack).
Mangetout, that site doesn’t have any cloud cover (wanted coz I’m off to an area with some major monsoon activity in a few weeks).
There are raduio buttons labelled ‘clouds’ and ‘IR clouds’ - click one of them, then hit the update button.
There’s a checkable list of other views;
Image: Living Earth®/NASA Visible Earth/Topo map/Clouds/IR clouds/Colour weather/ Water vapour/Water vapour raw
I’m going to have to get Win 2000 or XP yet… 
That 3D stuff don’t like 98…
That site, Earth View, is just awesome. I shake my head thinking about what computers did when I was a kid by comparison… :eek:
All it did on “clouds” for me was give me a big white ball at every zoom level. Apparently, the cloud cover today is thicker than Venus. 
Indeed. Except made up of huge, garish psychedelic pixels.