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by bsdetector 3547 days ago
https://earth.nullschool.net/

This is the oldest of this kind of map that I know of. It includes source on the About page.

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It is worth noting that the inventors of this particular type of visualization for wind data were Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg (former IBM, now Google, as far as I can remember). A pity that they are rarely mentioned.

http://hint.fm/wind/

This one seems much more efficient, at least on Safari. In contrast, the OP link pegs CPU to 100%.
It's using your laptop fan to simulate the sounds of the hurricane.