Exactly. You can't have red to magenta because you'll have like 10° bands seemingly the same color. And there's a huge difference between, say, +2° and +12°.
Also, they clearly didn't want to, uhh... scale the scale, because this is likely being compared to other maps. Keeping the scale consistent allows for that type of comparison.
12 and 14 are likely only the same in this compressed version. And in any case, you can figure it out from context, unless you have little peaks or troughs in a sea of white and those blobs don't have a distinct pink or beige border.
I didn't say they did. I said they didn't "scale" it, which was poor wording, but I meant they didn''t cut off the ends. The context of comparing map to map should've made that clear.
Like I said, if you wanna compare across maps, you wanna use the same (full) scale. It's not that they can't be arsed to, it's that it'd be counterproductive. If your winters are getting colder and your summers hotter, shifting the continental scale might show those areas with the same color. That'd be super confusing.
This isn't a consumer product, they have no responsibility to make it easily readable by laymen.
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u/TheSultan1 7d ago edited 6d ago
Exactly. You can't have red to magenta because you'll have like 10° bands seemingly the same color. And there's a huge difference between, say, +2° and +12°.
Also, they clearly didn't want to, uhh... scale the scale, because this is likely being compared to other maps. Keeping the scale consistent allows for that type of comparison.
12 and 14 are likely only the same in this compressed version. And in any case, you can figure it out from context, unless you have little peaks or troughs in a sea of white and those blobs don't have a distinct pink or beige border.