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EmperorZwerg1995 t1_j0pe4op wrote

Why is there literally zero visual discrepancy across 2/3 of this color scale

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KingKaiSuTeknon t1_j0phald wrote

It is also a test for colorblind and I got some bad news bro.

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Spring-Dance t1_j0pz6c3 wrote

If anything OP might be one of those women that can see 100 million more colors than everyone else.

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uberjam t1_j0sgaeg wrote

Ah whew. Thought it was just me.

Yeah this is a terrible graphic.

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R_V_Z t1_j0ss8fz wrote

Because anything more than 40 inches is "way too much".

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hunterxy t1_j0suxxg wrote

Because after 3ft, does it really matter anymore? You're buried in snow.

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EmykoEmyko t1_j0tqvcz wrote

Annually! That just a bit here and there for seven months.

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goldfishpaws t1_j0pify0 wrote

Zero snow is white and lots is purple! Infographics generally benefit from being instinctive, so for instance rainfall shown in blues, sun as yellows, so it might be worth stepping back to the project thinking about colouring and what it conveys in itself, to make it feel more instinctual :)

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monozach t1_j0sq2ah wrote

Totally see where you’re coming from, and not sure if it’s maybe just a regional thing, but where I’m from the above coloring is exactly what they use on radars to show the amount of snow a given area is expected to get.

Are you possibly from a place that doesn’t get much snow? Or does New England just use weird coloring schemes lol

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Pirate_Green_Beard t1_j0tnr25 wrote

I've always seen weather maps use a green to red gradient, with green being a drizzle and red being a downpour or blizzard.

But that's for maximum contrast.

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jessicathehun t1_j0pdtwo wrote

Why is 40 the same color as 90? What does it mean when a location is brown?

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ScarabLordOmar t1_j0pf4ag wrote

Probably no location that reports to national weather service. I’m in one of the shitty places that’s higher yearly average than the highest number on this scale.

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EnvironmentalCry3898 t1_j0pk05s wrote

40 to 90 the same color.

its only 4 feet, who cares right?

I live in maine.

sometimes I visit the tropics of southern new england to drop off some feet of snow.

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bigbluedoor t1_j0rcolr wrote

Sunday river yesterday couldn’t keep their lifts running with the outages lol, it was a real shitshow

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Macrophage87 t1_j0pza70 wrote

Contour lines would look way better here

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Sliiiiime t1_j0qgdsm wrote

Love how a place with 200” annually is the same color as 40”

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tonefilm t1_j0pfyla wrote

Why is there white overlapping with red in California?

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Simond876 t1_j0rmt7r wrote

The Santa Rosa and San Jacinto mountains are down there. Sky islands that rise 10,000 feet above the surrounding desert

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Purplekeyboard t1_j0qc0c8 wrote

Surprising to find out that florida receives the same amount of snow that much of the Rocky Mountains receives.

Or, maybe the graph shouldn't use the color tan to mean "I don't know".

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GreenleafMentor t1_j0ryifa wrote

40-90 are basically the same color. So many maps i see here recently have bad color gradients....why? The data is supposed to be beautiful.

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webcnyew t1_j0skmuf wrote

Houghton mi gets an average of 26 feet of snow in a season…Petoskey MI get on average about 120” a year…this calls into question the data itself not just the color scale.

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imeuru t1_j0rt16n wrote

The only two states I am actually interested in seeing the data on, are not on this map.

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GoodTechnician t1_j0sbzty wrote

Symbology/scaling is plain wrong, and why not grid to fill in the nulls? Fail.

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[deleted] t1_j0sg563 wrote

This is not only not beautiful, but it is also really poorly thought-out and terribly designed. Is it a joke? I hope it's a joke.

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uberjam t1_j0sg73q wrote

Am I colorblind or is 30 through 90 the same color?

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water605 t1_j0soukw wrote

Perhaps showing the state outlines on top of the dots?

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adjective-study t1_j0t1a3q wrote

That or make the ocean a different color. Half of California has disappeared.

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danjlwex t1_j0spjtj wrote

The top four snowiest places are all on the west coast (Wikipedia). They are all significantly higher total average snowfalls than any other places on the east coast. If you had a special color for the very top end of the gradient, this would be much clearer. Oddly, you have this at the low end already

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mrdarcy90 t1_j0spmpx wrote

Kind of funny to see the average as 90 inches in rhe upper peninsula, when we regularly get over 300 inches of snow a year. Even in “less” years, it’s still 150+ plus.

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jlim0316 t1_j0sqo7e wrote

why no distinction beyond 30 inches?

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Johnny_no_5 t1_j0t0i8o wrote

Great concept...but needs more range in the colorization. No discernible granularity (for me, at least!) beyond ~40".

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bassoonprune t1_j0r54eu wrote

Moving from a dark purple dot to a white dot was one of my better life decisions.

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The_Illist_Physicist t1_j0svrdl wrote

I'm in the opposite boat. Went from a white dot to a mid shade of purple and couldn't be happier! Although more of that had to do with getting tf out of the South than anything related to climate.

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Sayoria t1_j0r68wq wrote

We had a 100+ inch snowfall in Massachusetts in 2015. I feel like snow is getting rarer each year now.

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phdoofus t1_j0rmszd wrote

Could you a much better color scheme and if you have that much data just contour it.

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norcalar t1_j0s00lx wrote

Some places in the contiguous US get over 300” of snow, yet the color bar doesn’t accommodate for this at all.

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ReluctantRedacted t1_j0se5rb wrote

Pacific Northwest is the best place above latitude 35

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pookiedookie232 t1_j0so5gh wrote

Did I just learn I am colorblind or something?

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hunterxy t1_j0sv2bg wrote

Do one on snowfall days out of a year. Do one on rainfall in inches and rainfall days out of a year.

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DarkRajiin t1_j0ryzis wrote

Damn, I always love snow but we never get enough here. I wouldn't want to move and sacrifice having coastal area just for snow though

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No_Statement_3317 OP t1_j0pceia wrote

Made with D3.js, data from Snow-Inventory, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Link to the map here https://databayou.com/usa/snow.html

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embeddedanthro t1_j0pmb7b wrote

Consider updating the color scale! 40” and 90” have the same color. A better color scale would greatly improve this graphic.

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Aanslacht t1_j0pj1ec wrote

All of Canada has ZERO inches of snow annually, because they use metric like everyone else in the world (except for you know who).

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