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Red indicates a higher average temperature than the previous year; blue the opposite.

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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, but what are the pictures? Are they supposed to show the geographical globe or are they pixels of each day of that year or something?

Sure, the overall point is very clear, but it's generally good practice to label everything. It's not that I don't believe the data, it's just... What am I even looking at?

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It's average annual temperature for that area compared to the average of 1961-1990.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's what I was originally saying. The image doesn't TELL us anything, just shows us colors