The “Weather Replay” application from Copernicus recreates past weather conditions for any location and time

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A new application from Copernicus Climate Change Service called “Weather Replay” works like a time machine, allowing users to explore and visualise historical weather and climate events — such as storms, heatwaves, floods, hurricanes and cyclones — and their evolution over time in a simple and accessible way anywhere in the world.

Weather Replay De Copernicus 1778647460807Archive image generated by Weather Replay showing surface fields associated with a storm near the Iberian Peninsula. Source: Copernicus-ECMWF.

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), has launched a new application that could prove useful as a resource for producing future weather and climate reports.

The new Weather Replay application allows users to relive the weather conditions of any place in the world, hour by hour, from January 1940 to just a few days before the present. To do this, it uses the ERA5 reanalysis dataset, the ARCO archive system and ECMWF’s powerful data repositories.

An online time machine

This tool works like a time machine, allowing users to explore and visualise historical weather and climate events, such as

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