If you live in europe, please check in with your elderly neighbours. Hot temperatures can be deadly for old people
Let's go from white to red, then when it gets hotter back to white followed by red
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2026
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Whose decision was it to make "6" and "18" such similar colors
Not only are the colours bad, but the numbers are too? How is a max of 18 in summer worrying? We are way above those numbers.
That's variation from the average. It could certainly have been presented better.
That's not the temperature. That's the degree to which the temperature is strange.
Warm summer? Pfft. It's the coolest summer for the rest of our lives!
Hahaha that is so depressing hahaha
goes to cry in a corner
That depends on where you are.
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We used to have backbone. The count rised taxes too high and people picked up their pitchforks and torches. Now the rich elite makes planet inhabitable and no one cares to even complain about it loudly.
I honestly wouldn't be able to cope in such temperatures. I'm glad Denmark is in the middle of the map here, wedged right in the sweet spot. Even then, it's going to be unbearable next weekend and I'm slowly preparing for it.
What a great time to visit such a rural paradise that is Lithuania!
so what is the unit? because it's a hell of a lot warmer than 18C. Difference from... what historical average?
it says 2m temperature anomaly and if it got 18 degrees C hotter outside in two minutes i think i'd just accept death. i must be misreading something.
M could only mean minutes.
I think the 2m is for temperatures taken two meters off the ground. What the data range for the average is though, impossible to tell.
So why am I in Japan experiencing a slightly cooler summer (so far, yes I realize there is plenty of time to get fucked)?
Is this the new variant of 'but it snowed once so its fine'?
That's sort of like asking why the tide is low in Tokyo when it's high in Lisbon; the heat has gotta come from somewhere. I think this anomaly is largely due to shifts in currents.
What a horrendous color map.
Why the fuck is there white between red and red?
It goes red-black-white-red. And since temperatures rarely jumps 5°c without gradient, the map will have black and gray area surrounding any white that represents +13, and white will surround and red that represents +18°.
White = -8, 0, and 13.5-ish
I've just realised that this is saying that the UK is warmer than France. Because despite the term being white hot it's actually decided that red is hotter than white. Why didn't they just go from white being cold to red been hot?
I think they had to extend the scale in a hurry.
I might be the only one who doesn’t mind the color scheme. For the temperature range on the map, the only colors that don’t fit into the typical blue-to-red gradient are the green for really cold, which makes the coldest anomalies really pop, and the white for really hot. I get the complaints about white being used for both normal average temperature and for extreme heat, but it’s easy to tell which is which by the neighboring colors, and it almost looks as if France got so hot that it got a third degree burn, which chars the flesh, nerves included, and no longer feels like anything - thus insensate white.
Exactly what I was thinking. There are 3 different off-white colors that indicate vastly different temperature variants. This map is incredibly ambiguous. Which white zones are -8° below average, roughly the same as average, or 13° above average?
It's clear enough to me.
Could you try instead telling me the general message you get from the map?
The neighbouring colors are different though, so since it's not going to jump from +10 to -8 you can unequivocally tell. Honestly I think I hate this less than having 8 shades of slightly different red
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That is absolutely brutal. I really hope people are finding ways to escape the heat.
Separately, this visualization is bad in a way I have never seen before: a scale of pink to dark red, where dark red actually represents 2 completely different numbers!
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While yes, a 14c deviation from average temperatures is fucking insane, so is this map. The scale is cooked.
What's it measuring against average temperature for this time of year because Europe does get hot at this time of year we know that. It's also not as bad as the heat wave we had 6 weeks ago. Not too underestimate our awful the weather currently is.
That's a 57f deviation for us mouth-breathing heathens.
Wtf did the map burn a hole in France?
Someone running a magnifying glass over there
Is this the Musk laser space weapon
Damn, some french twitter user must have called him a loser or something.
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...so is northeastern France -8, 0, or +13? What a fucking stupid color scale
The color scale is definitely... a choice but it is not ambiguous. There is only one "path" that goes red, then black, then white.
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