The Year Ring
Paper / A4
£29.00
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The Year Ring
£29.00
Print only, frame not included. UK delivery usually 4 to 8 working days.
A year of temperature wound into a ring: summer burning bright, the cold nights deep at its heart.
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. Every hour of that year as its temperature, wound into a ring, and a key. Under it: the warmest and coldest months and the warmest week, all on average, and the longest day. 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.
January at the top and the year running clockwise, each day a spoke from midnight at the inner edge, through noon, to midnight at the rim. A heatwave or a freeze shows as a flare. Lovely in pairs: two places, or the year you met beside the year someone was born.
- Under the picture: the warmest and coldest months and the warmest week, all on average, and the longest day
- A key gives the temperatures
- Anywhere in the world, any whole year from 1940 to last year
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.