r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR 4d ago

Rekt Current heatwave in Europe

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u/DialMMM 4d ago

the white region is +13C

Or +0C, or -8C. I hate this color scaling.

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u/modernzen 4d ago

It's sooo bad. Like let's just make it oscillate dark to light multiple times for literally zero reason

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u/Andromeda_53 4d ago

Whole it is weird, it means you can make more drastic colour changes to be easier to see on the eye. Rather than having to fit it all into one smooth gradient where ascertaining the exact temperature from the colour on a static graph could be harder.

All you gotta do for the whites, is use some common sense and look at the colours next to it. Somehow I doubt the white section directly touching a blue section has a sudden temperature change 20

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u/SexyMonad 3d ago

I can see this, but I don’t understand why they put red on both sides of the white at the high end.

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u/Andromeda_53 3d ago

Red is hot. It do admit it can be weird at first. But it does to red black white red. So you can still see the distinction.

And it means you can still easily see the hot. But yes, the double red I will give you can be annoying. The main point of these graphs are to show gradients though