Check out this interactive map of wind speed showing the hurricane on the east coast right now:

You can click on the map to get the current wind speed.  Thanks goes to Tom Lutgen at Burbank Water and Power for pointing this out.

You may enjoy this interesting series of interactive data visualizations showing land use in the continental United States based on different categorizations used by the US Department of Agriculture.  I found it interesting when you organize all the categories together that pasture and rangeland would take up most of the Western US and all of the country’s cities and towns would fit in the Northeast.  Check it out!