is it a good sign when the national weather service runs out of pre-assigned colors to depict temperature?

[iwillyeah@mastodon.ie]

@dirkhh this can't be temp colour coded though. Ireland has been nowhere near as hot as France, and its not winter in Portugal as far as I've heard. What is this?

[iwillyeah@mastodon.ie]

@energisch_ @dirkhh Greenland isn't anywhere near this map.

[iwillyeah@mastodon.ie]

@lp0_on_fire @dirkhh right? Somethings fucky here. Don't get me wrong, I'm hot and it's a climate disaster, but I don't know what this map is telling us.

[dirkhh@social.afront.org]

@Iwillyeah
I think the color depicts the deviation from "average late June temperature". So warmer than usual most places, and colder than usual for example in Portugal...

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@dirkhh it's doubleplusgood.

[dirkhh@social.afront.org]

@Iwillyeah @lp0_on_fire

I believe it's the difference compared to the average temperature.

[ericschutte@mastodon.nl]

@dirkhh
I think the color is exactly right and intended to be so.
It is the color of burning wood or paper.
#ClimateChange #KlimaatVerandering #NoHoax

[veronica@mastodon.online]

@dirkhh I'm guessing that's infrared then!

(Since hot and cold colours are opposite order of high and low energy light.)

[edwing@mstdn.moimeme.ca]

@dirkhh How hot is that…

[iwillyeah@mastodon.ie]

@dirkhh that makes some more sense than an actual heat map

[murteza@edmontonian.social]

@dirkhh@social.afront.org

Did you guys decide to keep the water out by boiling it?

[mahryekuh@hachyderm.io]

@dirkhh It's OK because all the reply-people in the social media comments of news outlets say it's just an ordinary summer (fun fact, it's not summer yet) and stop complaining because it's an ordinary workday for them tomorrow.

…

And other reasons why democracy sometimes frightens me (even if it's still better than the alternatives).

[thornoroni@retro.pizza]

@afeinman @dirkhh
high effort joke

[dirkhh@social.afront.org]

@thornoroni

That is incredibly well done.
Can I ask about the toolchain used? It looks amazing.

[baloouriza@social.tulsa.ok.us]

@dirkhh It means you're in Oklahoma. Sorry.

[julien@cosocial.ca]

@dirkhh there's a color map specifically designed for that use case in Matplotlib. It's called inferno...

https://matplotlib.org/stable/users/explain/colors/colormaps.html#sequential

[donlamb_1@mastodon.online]

@dirkhh @catsalad its just ash inside there.

[rhelune@todon.eu]

@Iwillyeah @energisch_ @dirkhh Grønland is though.

[energisch_@troet.cafe]

RE: https://fediscience.org/@ZLabe/116812225347353347

@Iwillyeah @dirkhh look at this Arctic ocean heat map https://troet.cafe/@ZLabe@fediscience.org/116812225910301059

[stephan@them.cheeky.wales]

@dirkhh@social.afront.org well, there is #44403d - Scorched Earth color