Today’s storm coincides with a flurry of related visualizations and news apps. Here are a few that caught our eye.

WNYC‘s Data News team was quick to provide embeddable radar, transit trackers and traffic maps.

The New York Times built a dashboard to track the status of airports, trains, and schools in the NYC area.

Chris Whong built a timelapse map on CartoDB of snow plows traveling around New York City last night.

The Boston Globe built a static map of snow accumulation.

Windyty.com and earth.nullschool.net visualize global weather conditions. The wind data are updated every three hours. The tech is open-source.

Smithsonian published a map tracking geo-tagged social media updates related to the storm.

Bloomberg Businessweek compiled flight delay and cancellation data.

The Guardian posted a collage of live camera feeds from U.S. East Coast cities.

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Aleszu Bajak was the founding editor of Storybench. He is currently the director of data visualization at the Urban Institute. Previously, he was a senior data reporter on USA TODAY's data team, part of the newspaper's national investigative unit. He is a former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at M.I.T., was a founding senior writer at Undark magazine and founding editor of Esquire Classic, a project resuscitating the magazine's archives. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, M.I.T. Technology Review and Nature.

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