If you live in europe, please check in with your elderly neighbours. Hot temperatures can be deadly for old people
Let's go from white to red, then when it gets hotter back to white followed by red
Nevermind the fact London this year is hotter than the nearest town to death valley last year.
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What a horrendous color map. The true anarchy in this post is the cartographers use of hue.
Exactly what I was thinking. There are 3 different off-white colors that indicate vastly different temperature variants. This map is incredibly ambiguous. Which white zones are -8° below average, roughly the same as average, or 13° above average?
The neighbouring colors are different though, so since it's not going to jump from +10 to -8 you can unequivocally tell. Honestly I think I hate this less than having 8 shades of slightly different red
Like I don't have time to get into it cus I'm at work, but their use of hue is a non-function the color space.
I might be the only one who doesn’t mind the color scheme. For the temperature range on the map, the only colors that don’t fit into the typical blue-to-red gradient are the green for really cold, which makes the coldest anomalies really pop, and the white for really hot. I get the complaints about white being used for both normal average temperature and for extreme heat, but it’s easy to tell which is which by the neighboring colors, and it almost looks as if France got so hot that it got a third degree burn, which chars the flesh, nerves included, and no longer feels like anything - thus insensate white.
Warm summer? Pfft. It's the coolest summer for the rest of our lives!
Whose decision was it to make "6" and "18" such similar colors
Whoever had to extend the scale in a hurry because the numbers were literally unthinkable when it was made. This year people who can have lunch in death valley national park are getting cooler temperatures than London.
Those people near death valley are living in (mostly shitty) homes built for extreme heat, with central air thick insulation and light colored exteriors, double pane windows, entry vestibules in the nicer ones, all the things nobody in england has seen outside american TV.
That is absolutely brutal. I really hope people are finding ways to escape the heat.
Separately, this visualization is bad in a way I have never seen before: a scale of pink to dark red, where dark red actually represents 2 completely different numbers!
Not only are the colours bad, but the numbers are too? How is a max of 18 in summer worrying? We are way above those numbers.
That's variation from the average. It could certainly have been presented better.
That's not the temperature. That's the degree to which the temperature is strange.
...so is northeastern France -8, 0, or +13? What a fucking stupid color scale
Deviation to the average temperature. So its 13 K above the average. Or in other words around 42-44°C
Edit: oh you were complaining about the colormap? Yeah its super shit
The color scale is definitely... a choice but it is not ambiguous. There is only one "path" that goes red, then black, then white.
Wtf did the map burn a hole in France?
I think the gates of hell are there.
The graph stops at 18°C, that's the temperature it should be not the temperature that it is. Also why does it have two whites, white is apparently both zero and 13, which is bizarre because it's definitely hotter than 13 everywhere in Europe right now and probably in Iceland as well. This map makes no sense.
I believe the colors denote how many degrees above/below average the temp deviates.
The scale is "temperature anomaly" so this is deviation from the norm, not the temperature itself
Sorry but you're reading this all wrong
While yes, a 14c deviation from average temperatures is fucking insane, so is this map. The scale is cooked.
That's a 57f deviation for us mouth-breathing heathens.
+14C deviation is equivalent to +25F not 57. You don't add the 32F for a deviation, only actual. Still an insane increase above normal though.
so what is the unit? because it's a hell of a lot warmer than 18C. Difference from... what historical average?
it says 2m temperature anomaly and if it got 18 degrees C hotter outside in two minutes i think i'd just accept death. i must be misreading something.
I think the 2m is for temperatures taken two meters off the ground. What the data range for the average is though, impossible to tell.
M could only mean minutes.
Possibly the worst color scale I've ever seen on a chart
Europe needs to normalize air conditioning. I'll never forget the most miserable summer of my life was in germany. Summer gets hot there just like most other places, but in Europe, domiciles don't have AC 🥵
I have medical documentation saying I need adequate temperature control and I have offered my landlord to pay all costs associated with installing AC and still they banned me from having AC 😭.
This will probably start to change if this is now the reality but at least historically the reason Europe didn't have air conditioning was it wasn't worth it for the 4 days of the year that it would be used.
The other reason being that houses won't design to be air conditioned, we don't have ducted heating so if I bought an air conditioner and had it installed in a room it would air condition that room, if I wanted air conditioning in my house I would have to have a unit fitted in each room, that's going to get expensive. Alternatively I could buy this £15 fan from Lidl.
We used to have backbone. The count rised taxes too high and people picked up their pitchforks and torches. Now the rich elite makes planet inhabitable and no one cares to even complain about it loudly.
What is up with France?
Genuinely cooking.
There were 20 drowning deaths this weekend because people were jumping into dangerous rivers to escape the heat.
Hot
It's a fucking oven.
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