Red indicates a higher average temperature than the previous year; blue the opposite.
this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2023
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Relative scale is worse. Not only that the temperatures keep going up and aren't a fixed "red", but that there's few to no blues now, meaning it's always going up everywhere. And this is actually a more calming way to present it that the usual exponential spike chart.
We need a color that's more alarming than red to switch to next