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GPharand t1_j3c6je2 wrote

There simply isn't a winter in Quebec this year. 😭 Jan 7 still no snow on the ground! I was hoping to never see this...

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oddmarc t1_j3cxhh7 wrote

There's snow in Montreal...

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GPharand t1_j3dioe8 wrote

Well not in the eastern township where I live and when I was a kid, by this time of the year there was like 2 feet of snow ... not a trace.

Pretty much all ski resort are closed or partially open in the dead of winter

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oddmarc t1_j3dk6tj wrote

Ah didn't know that. Bromont is open and there's tons of snow in the Laurentians, but yeah it's worryingly mild.

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sofakking t1_j3dj67x wrote

that's not quebec, english is spoken there.

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MoneyBeGreeen t1_j3ds2m1 wrote

It’s almost as if a lot of really smart people warned us of these outcomes, while a lot of rich people with business interests told us not to worry.

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threedotsonedash t1_j3d7v6x wrote

I get the sentiment of the mapping exercise, however I can't overlook what appears to be a bias in the gradients used in the scale.

Perhaps someone can explain why +20*c scales so very much darker than -20*c. This is not typically what you see when using color gradients to represent values.

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Few_Memory5631 t1_j3cmv5h wrote

Can anyone explain the temperature key/coloring? Shouldn’t 0 C be at the same position as 32 F?

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PhallableBison t1_j3cnzfh wrote

It appears that the colors represent the difference between the Jan 1 temperature and the average temperature 1991-2020 for January. I was confused at first too, there shouldn’t be 20C temps in the arctic circle.

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sdbernard OP t1_j3conme wrote

Exactly this, it's a temperature anomaly map. This shows the temperature difference from the long term average (1992-2020). It's much more effective than a normal temperature map because you don't have to be familiar with what normal temperatures should be in each region to understand how unusual they are

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threedotsonedash t1_j3f43on wrote

Can you explain the color choices for the gradient, why are you using a seemingly intentionally more rich color pallet & depth for +20*c vs a very muted blue for -20*c?

Did the data alone not paint the fiery globe image you wanted to project? You may as well have manipulated the data.

This is not beautiful data, it is a subjective abuse of color to paint a story the data alone didn't tell.

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Rbot25 t1_j3col67 wrote

It displays the difference in temperature between this year and the mean over 1990 to 2020. It is not the temperature of the places. Since we are computing a difference if the temperature this time was the same as the previous ones the difference would be zero being it Celsius or Fahrenheit, and since Fahrenheit increases faster than Celsius they don't have the same value when the difference in temperature is different from zero.

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Other_Acount_Got_Ban t1_j3d070u wrote

Coldest temperature should be represented by the darkest blue considering you have used the darkest red

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Maxnwil t1_j3ccsxt wrote

This is a great visualization of one of the fundamental pieces of climate change: places are going to feel extreme changes to formerly fairly consistent weather patterns.

It’s shorts weather in Svalbard in January! And this is just two weeks after it was 30 degrees below average in Chicago on Christmas Eve. On average the globe warms a few degrees, but boy howdy are we feeling the effects in different ways.

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[deleted] t1_j3crj8t wrote

Tipping points folks. Wait for the tipping points. That’s when the dominoes will start to tumble and I honestly believe they will fall much faster than anyone can comprehend.

If anything this chart should be “data is horrifying” not “data is beautiful.”

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SleeplessInS t1_j3chimk wrote

-25C is normal temperature in January ? You must live far up north somewhere.

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muftu t1_j3dizaz wrote

It is normal to have -25 in Poland? I seriously doubt that.

Edit: This website says, that the coldest day on record had a temperature of -25.1C. Also current temperature in Warsaw is 5C. It is unlikely, that the temperature would fall by 30 degrees just little up north.

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postman_666 t1_j3cn5ye wrote

Why is the arctic over Russia on fire?

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PhallableBison t1_j3codrc wrote

It’s the temperature difference between that day and the average for January. So that area is much hotter than average, but not necessarily hotter than most of Russia on that day

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threedotsonedash t1_j3f6195 wrote

>Russia on fire

Because they are using color to manipulate the data, earth is burning & equal color gradients don't show this story.

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Maso_del_Saggio t1_j3gn6d7 wrote

If you would have used a more honest color scale, this map would show that basically molto of the map, apart from the streak on the artic and the one in east Europe, are reasonably on average, with what I can guess (it's really hard to be determined in your messy yellow to black color gradient) is ±5°C. Which on a single day is honestly incredibly consistent. Though again, really hard to comprehend since yellow goes to orange to dark orange in a very small degree range.

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shindleria t1_j3exw5b wrote

I hope Ukraine and the rest of Europe have a record warm winter only to fuck over Russia even more.

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