Tag: Seasons

• Where the wind blows: the world’s winds, and are wind farms in the windy places?

  

  I mapped the world’s winds month by month, from the trade winds to the Roaring Forties and the monsoon, and set 5,344 wind farms against the wind at their sites. 82% of onshore capacity stands on ground windier than its country’s median.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Animated timeline, Present day, Seasons, technology, UK, weather and climate, World, world maps, WorldClim

• What are the odds of a white Christmas where you live?

  

  Every Christmas Day from 1940 to 2025 in 116 UK towns. Snow lay on about 1 in 11, from never in Bournemouth to most years in the Highlands, and white Christmases arrive in a few big years.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, Present day, Scotland, Seasons, Twentieth century, UK, weather and climate

• Do the clocks kill?

  

  Every spring and autumn someone warns that the clock change brings more crashes. Across 9.1 million collisions in Great Britain since 1979, the week after the change looks like any other week.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Before and after test, Britain, Clocks and calendars, population, Present day, Roads, Seasons, Twentieth century, UK

• Where the lifeboats go: five years of RNLI launches mapped

  

  I looked at all 45,673 RNLI lifeboat launches from 2021 to 2025. Half went less than 4.5 km from the station, summer belongs to leisure boats, and the busiest station of all is on the Thames.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, coast and sea, Coasts and islands, maps, Present day, Seasons, Ships and the sea, UK

• 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.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Present day, Seasons, Towns and cities, weather and climate, World, world maps, WorldClim