Your storm, inked
Midnight / A3
£39.00
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Your storm, inked
£39.00
Print only, frame not included. UK delivery usually 4 to 8 working days.
The night the roof came off, drawn in ink like an old printed chart.
The date
Any date from 1 January 1940 to about a week ago
The hour (GMT)
The hour to show, in GMT. Leave blank and we will choose the hour of the strongest gusts
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 (or we choose the windiest) and a title. A map of the British Isles and the Atlantic drawn in ink: the gusts as stippled dots, the isobars, the low's track, and the figures beneath. 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.
Any storm or windy day since 1940, across the British Isles and the Atlantic, drawn in the style of an old printed chart: hatched land, a hand-drawn coast, isobars and the wind's flow in fine ink lines, and the red track of the low. The gusts are stippled dots, closer where the wind was stronger, and every dot is one colour. The scale never changes, so a big storm looks big and a calm day looks calm.
Choose Midnight, Amber, Oxblood, Lemon, Rose or Ink.
- Any date since 1940: choose the hour, or let us pick the windiest
- Six colourways, from Midnight to Ink
- Give it a title, like The Great Storm
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 colours are ERA5 reanalysis gusts, averaged over squares of 28 km. The gust the print states is the day's highest measured at a Met Office weather station, named and circled on the map (stations on mountain tops are left out, and named in the caption). Station gusts are published about a year late, and there were too few stations before about 1960, so for those dates the print states no gust. The examples shown are real storms. Data: ERA5, ECMWF (Copernicus Climate Change Service), CC BY 4.0. Station gusts: Met Office MIDAS Open via CEDA, Open Government Licence. 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.