Dutch weather coffee cup
This animation shows monthly mean temperatures in the Netherlands from 1906 to 2016 as a spiraling coffee cup. Each line segment represents a month, positioned radially around a center point. The distance from the center encodes temperature, with larger radii for warmer months, while the segment color follows a sequential orange heatmap scale indicating the year. As the animation progresses, segments draw outward from the cup's base, forming a spiral that visually compresses over a century of climate data into a single rotating shape. The visualization is inspired by Ed Hawkins' climate spiral and Mitchell Whitelaw's Measuring Cup, and the data comes from the KNMI weather service. A slider allows interactive exploration of the time range.
AI-generated descriptionThis animation shows a representation of montly mean temperatures from 1906-2016 in the Netherlands.
Inspiration for this datavizualization came from the climate spiral by Ed Hawkins and the Measuring Cup by Mitchell Whitelaw
Data source: KNMI