A dizzying weather pattern 😵‍💫 ~ check out this unique animation of atmospheric vorticity... Vorticity is a term used to describe the tendency of a fluid, in this case the atmosphere, to spin. Low pressure is forecast to stall in the Tasman Sea for the next week, seeing areas of vorticity consistently "pinwheel" around the low, bringing semi-regular rounds of rain and thunderstorms to many regions of the country, starting tonight (Thursday night). If the animation looks a bit messy, that's bec

Do you know what vorticity is? Ocean Surface Vorticity is the subject of a new SOS dataset! It can be thought of as the rate of fluid rotation. Read more about it here: http://sos.noaa.gov/Datasets/dataset.php?id=604 | NOAA Science On a Sphere