What is this telling us?

Each spoke is a capital city, wettest so far this year first, clockwise from the top. Each ring is a month, January in the middle and this month on the outside, filling in as today's rain comes down.

How to read this

The number beside each city is its rain so far this year, in millimetres.

The legend

  • 10 to 50 mm in the month
  • 50 to 200 mm
  • 200 mm and over
  • Under 10 mm
  • Raining there now

Developed by Benny for the QuietSignal project, using rain data from Open-Meteo (ERA5 and forecast models, CC BY 4.0).

Colour scheme: Sanzo Wada, A Dictionary of Color Combinations, No. 139.