Mods sorry i have no idea where to put this so please move to a new home if this isn't appropriate not a poster but am a daily visitor (check the arctic ice and model threads mainly)... anyway came across this today and thought it worth a share (and to hell with ruining my post count - lol) http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/850hPa/orthographic if you click on 'Earth' you can change the height from 1000 to 10hpa.. you can spin the globe or change the map type, step through past data/forward projections, zoom etc. updates every 3 hours... allegedly not sure how much use it is but it's a pretty impressive overview of earth winds