Tag: weather and climate
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Where the sun sets into the sea: sea sunsets and sunrises at the beaches of Britain and Ireland
I traced the Sun’s path from 1,717 beaches in Britain and Ireland, day by day: 47% see the Sun set into open sea on some day of the year, only 52 every day, and islands like Arran and Lundy take a bite out of the year.
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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.
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Shadows of the giants: who loses the winter sun to Britain’s towers?
On the shortest day a shadow in London is 3.7 times the height of what casts it. I traced the winter sun through eight UK city centres: ordinary streets take most of it, but at Canary Wharf the towers take 0.76 hours from every square metre.
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Where rain goes: which sea does your rain end up in?
Every place in Britain, Ireland and the world, followed downhill to the sea. 50% of Great Britain drains to the North Sea, Wales sends none of its rain there, and 24% of the world’s land never reaches the sea at all.
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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.
