Animated Clouds shows you the last 24 hours of cloud movement on Google Earth. The data is updated every hour, or when new data is available.
Turn on Animated Clouds
- Open Google Earth.
- Click Map style
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- Scroll to “Turn on animated clouds” and turn on the feature.
Tip: Google Earth shows stationary clouds by default, and animated clouds fade and then disappear when you zoom in.
Turn off stationary clouds
- Open Google Earth.
- Click Map style
- Go to the Custom box.
- Check the box next to Clouds.
Both animated and stationary clouds fade, and then disappear, when zooming in.
Notes:
- Cloud data may not always be precise and shouldn’t be used for public safety or daily planning.
- There might be gaps in coverage and irregular shaped clouds.
- If new data is unavailable, we’ll show the most recent complete data rather than show no clouds.
- There’s no cloud data near the poles.
Troubleshooting
If we experience an outage, we’ll notify you on our forum.