Weather Radials

Wired:

Weather apps are something of a designers’ playground. Seemingly every week there’s a fresh, beautiful new way to check the forecast on our smartphones. In 2012, the folks at German design house Raureif put out an app called Partly Cloudy; inspired by a clock face, it showed the day’s weather as a circle. Before long, the designers realized that their radial layout could also show weather that had already occurred. With this poster, they chronicle a whole year of it.
The studio’s “Weather Radials” print economically documents the weather in 35 cities around the world for the entire year of 2013. It’s the perfect gift for data viz junkies and weather obsessives alike.
Each city’s graphic captures an impressive amount of meteorological data. Starting with January 1 at the 12 o’clock position, each day of the year is represented by a single line. The bottom of the line is the day’s low temperature–the closer the line is to the center of the circle, the colder it was that day. The top of the line is the high. The color of each is determined by the average temperature. The blue circles represent precipitation; the bigger the blob, the greater the storm.

The poster is pretty cool looking.  Now if I had the same data for each farm, combined with yield data, I'd be really stoked.  As it is, why should I give a shit what the temperature in Reykjavik is?