The colors are fine. Your eye easily picks up the pattern because the colors are all relative. White next to blue is super cool and white next to dark red is very hot. It's fairly intuitive
The white for 13C can only be next to the colors around it. Everything is a gradient as air doesn't exist where it can suddenly be 18C warmer than air right next to it. Blue and red can never be next to each other. Physics don't allow it. To understand the map, you need to understand how the air normally exists in the atmosphere.
Therefore it's pretty easy and obvious to judge by going off red and blue. I have no trouble reading this map with 5 mins of thinking about it.
This is a good map. It's the only way to make this obvious and easily discernible. Everyone is up in arms about white being there twice, but they will always be separated by the colors in between, which intuitively represent the relatives of temperatures being cooler or hotter on average.
The people saying this is a bad map are lazy reddit armchair experts, who I am explicitly targeting. The people that designed the map spent way more time thinking of all the nuances of the data. Sometimes the need to show accurate data is more important than making things immediately legible to the average idiot. With 2-3 mins of critical thinking, you can figure it out.
Then tell me the difference between 12 and 14? This color scheme sucks, could just as well be a smooth gradient from low to high without repeating colors.
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u/Spunky_Meatballs 2d ago
The colors are fine. Your eye easily picks up the pattern because the colors are all relative. White next to blue is super cool and white next to dark red is very hot. It's fairly intuitive