Microscopics

Flat pictures of cartoon clouds on a flat map to represent the weather is too easy. Now you can check the weather by flying through it.

Head to bing.com/maps, click the 3D button, switch to aerial view, enter your home town in the search, then use Control (Command) with your mouse or the side buttons to change the angle of view. You may also want to turn off Labels. Use the cursor buttons or an Xbox controller to fly through the impressively full 3D clouds.

Of course, this is only in real time, so you can’t predict the weather for tomorrow, but you can check the weather at the beach you’re going to visit later. You could also look out the window, but this is more fun.

Microscopics headquarters. Click image to zoom in…

Check your settings are correct. Go to Options>3D Settings, and make sure ‘Show local weather’ is ticked. You can also hit F11 to go fullscreen (F11 to get back again).

3D Fly-through works in Firefox 2 & 3, IE6, 7 & 8, and Safari 2 & 3 on the Mac, but not Chrome, yet.

UPDATE: The weather is based on 14 cloud types, updated every 3 hours.

You can also visit some cities in full 3D  too…

New York. Click image to zoom in…

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