Tag: Present day
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The footpath capital of Britain
Which part of Britain has the most public footpaths per square mile? From the councils’ own data: Rossendale, with 7.7 miles of right of way per square mile, and the South Pennine mill towns fill the top ten. Powys has the most per person; Harrow the fewest of anywhere with a definitive map.
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Drowned and rising: Britain and the world at every sea level
A bathtub model of every sea level from the Ice Age to an ice-free world. In the model Britain becomes an island at −30 m; at +70 m, 33% of the UK is under water.
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How many months a year are pleasantly warm?
Count the months whose average afternoon high is 18 to 27 °C and the average city dweller gets 3.6 a year. By 2041 to 2060 it is 2.9: months are lost at the hot end, gained at the cool end, and you can pick your own band.
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Sun and rain: the world’s sunshine against its rainfall
Sunny and dry, sunny and wet, dull and dry, dull and wet: a map of the world’s sunshine against its rainfall. Only 3% of land is both sunny and wet, and 84% is sunnier than anywhere in the UK.
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Sun and rain: the UK’s sunshine against its rainfall
Every square kilometre of the UK by sunshine and rainfall at once: sunny and dry, dull and wet, and the rare places that are both sunny and wet. Since 1961 to 1990 the country has become 5.6% sunnier and 7.2% wetter.
