In uk.sci.weather on Thu, 23 Sep 2004 at 05:55:54, Col wrote :

"JPG" wrote in message
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I just had this animation shown to me:

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/comp/cmoll/cmoll.html

It's interesting, to me at least, how all the tropical Atlantic stuff
seems to originate near the horn of Africa. Hurricane Ivan's later
life cycle can be seen clearly, culminating in the later images in the
cloud that is over us at the moment.

Love it! Now I want one for an entire year!

Something very loosely related :

I recently bought Star Trek (original series) S1, and in the episode
'Tomorrow Is Yesterday' they showed a shot of the Earth without a single
cloud on it! Surely even on their 1960's budget they could have afforded
a pot of paint to draw a few white swirls?

AFAIK, the series didn't pre-date the first weather satellites, so
surely pictures of the earth from orbit must have existed to work from.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham