Gallery: A Beautiful Poster Packed With a Year of Global Weather Data

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    The Weather Radials poster is about as much meteorological data as you can cram onto a single sheet of paper.
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    Each day of 2013 is represented by a single line. The bottom is the low temp; the top is the high. The color is dictated by the average. Blue circles represent precipitation.
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    Reykjavik looks fairly miserable year round. At least there isn't much precipitation.
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    Mumbai is always hot. Note monsoon season in the summer months.
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    Look at Sydney's spiky winter. That means one day was super hot while the next was totally mild.
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    Seattle's reputation as a rainy city bears out with its steady band of blue, from roughly September to May.
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    An unseasonably cold spell in December brought the first snow Cairo had seen in a century.
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    2013 was a wet year for Berlin.
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