Highs and Lows
Paper / A4
£29.00
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Highs and Lows
£29.00
Print only, frame not included. UK delivery usually 4 to 8 working days.
A year of air pressure, drawn like a range of hills: every storm a valley.
The year
A whole year, from 1940 to last year.
The place
The town, then the county or country. We print exactly the place you give.
Title (optional)
Ideas: The year we married, Our year on Shetland, Kyoto, our year
What you get: An unframed print on heavyweight 240 gsm matte fine art paper, A4 (210 x 297 mm), A3 (297 x 420 mm) or A2 (420 x 594 mm), usually sent rolled in a tube. Made to order for you. You give the place, the year and a title. The year's air pressure as twelve lines, one a month, with the deepest low marked. Under it: the deepest low, the highest high, the steepest fall in 24 hours, and the months with a low below 990 hPa. The preview on this page shows your words, dates and layout; where it is marked sample weather, the weather drawn in it is an example until we make your print.
Twelve fine lines, one for each month, in the tradition of the barograph trace. Every low that passed is a valley, every high a rise, and the deepest low of the year is marked with its reading. Simple line art with a whole year's weather inside it.
- Under the picture: the deepest low, the highest high, the steepest fall in 24 hours, and the months with a low below 990 hPa
- Anywhere in the world, any whole year from 1940; best where storms pass over, since in the tropics the lines run nearly flat
- Six colourways
Made just for you, so it cannot be returned for a change of mind, or cancelled once we have started making it (contact us straight away if you need to). If it arrives faulty or damaged, we will replace it or refund you in full.
Where the weather comes from
The weather is ERA5, a reanalysis from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. It estimates the weather for squares about 28 km across, so it describes the area around your place, not one garden. Dates before about 1950, and places far from weather stations, rest mostly on the model with few observations behind them. The examples are real years at real places. Data: ERA5, ECMWF (Copernicus Climate Change Service), CC BY 4.0. Credits are printed on every sheet.
Print details and delivery
- Sizes: A4 (210 x 297 mm), A3 (297 x 420 mm), A2 (420 x 594 mm).
- Paper: heavyweight matte fine art paper (240 gsm), bright white, smooth with a fine grain.
- Inks: giclée printing in pigment-based archival inks.
- Printed to the edge of the sheet, with no border added. Each design keeps its own margin, so nothing important sits near the trim.
- Unframed, and usually sent rolled in a tube.
- Delivery: most UK orders arrive in 4 to 8 working days (1 to 4 days to print, then 2 to 3 days by courier). See the shipping page.
- Colours differ a little between a screen and paper.