Your day, observed
Ink / A3
£45.00
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Your day, observed
£45.00
Print only, frame not included. UK delivery usually 4 to 8 working days.
A real weather chart of the UK for any hour since 1960, for people who like the detail.
The date
Any date from 1 January 1960 to about a week ago, over the UK (fewer stations before the mid 1970s)
The hour (GMT)
In GMT. Midday unless you change it.
Title (optional)
Ideas: The night the roof came off, Our storm, The day of the flood
What you get: An unframed print on heavyweight 240 gsm matte fine art paper, 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 date, the hour and a title. Every UK weather station that reported at that hour, plotted in the forecaster's symbols, with isobars drawn over them. 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.
The weather as the stations reported it, plotted the way forecasters once did it by hand. Choose a date and an hour, a birthday, a wedding or a storm, and see the United Kingdom as every reporting station saw it, with isobars drawn over them in pen.
- The United Kingdom's weather stations: the chart is always of the UK
- At each station: temperature, dew point, pressure, cloud, wind and present weather
- Any date and hour since 1960
- Eight colourways, from Ink to Daffodil
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
Met Office MIDAS Open hourly observations via CEDA (Open Government Licence), isobars from ERA5. Only the stations that reported at that hour are plotted, so older dates have fewer. That is about 45 stations in the 1960s, and more from the mid 1970s. The example shown is real. Credits are printed on every sheet.
Print details and delivery
- Sizes: 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.