#temperature map

No, I don't live at O'Hare Int'l Airport. That's just the closest official weather station to me, yet it's still far enough away that I can't guarantee the temperature there is the same as in my town, so I didn't feel comfortable labeling it as the temperatures for my town.

Just getting around to posting these now that it's been weeks since I sent them in, but here's my second series of maps for @jayrockin‘s Runaway to the Stars project! This is the home planet of their Avian species of aliens, and being predominantly ocean-covered and having an obliquity of only 11 degrees, these factors result in a somewhat more stable, less seasonally variable climate than we see on Earth. Every image here is helpfully (hopefully) captioned, but for a quick summary, these maps represent the elevation data (with and without a color gradient and water systems); the seasonal ice extent (limited to the Equinoxes and an Annual Average since the Winter and Summer sea-ice extents aren’t that different and there’s very little land ice outside the poles); and maps showing the Average Annual Temperature, Total Annual Precipitation, a combination of the two along with a key, and, finally, a map broken down into distinct zones based on temperature and precipitation, ice cover, mountains, seasonality, and Continentality vs Oceanity, based loosely on the Trewartha climate classification system. Digital Painting (Photopea) 2022 Higher resolution copies of these maps can be found in my Reddit post about this : )

Highs for 2023 ranged from 11°F on February 3 to 100°F on August 24. That's the first triple digit temperature since I started stitching these patterns, although not the first we've ever had. But I got to use a new color, so yay?

I actually finished this on New Year's Day, but I've been waiting for a sunny day to take a picture so the yellows would show up. Yes, I had to wait this long for the sun to come out.

Temperature patterns are becoming more popular on Etsy, so it looks like I'm going to be doing these for many more years.

Yes, I will be doing this again next year. And probably every year until I run out of patterns I like.

That's it for this piece of plastic canvas. This year I plan to do the highs and lows, and I also need to squeeze in an extra day for leap year, so I'll be using the same colors with a different pattern.