weathergami

plural weathergamis

1. climatologyA combination of high and low temperatures that has never occurred before.

   To show real-world examples of weathergami charts, several examples were prepared for locations with different climate types (Table 1).

   2023 October 1, Jonathan D. W. Kahl, “Weathergami”, in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, volume 104, number 10, →DOI

   1 more example

   If we just plopped down a dot for every observation we’d end up with an undifferentiated black blob, so the weathergami technique visualizes frequency of temperature pairs: we divide the chart area into a fine hexagonal grid, and then color each hexagon according to how many daily observations fall within it.

   2023 November 9, Christopher Ingram, ““Weathergami” charts paint new portrait of Minnesota climate”, in Minnesota Reformer