Guess the city from 25 years of its weather.
193 cities chosen across nine climate types, from Yakutsk to Singapore. Each measure is its own subcategory with its own colours: temperature runs glacial blue to warm orange around a mild near-white.
This is the category that rewards knowing where things are. A strip that is dark blue every year is somewhere very cold. One that warms band after band is a city feeling a changing climate.
What one band is. One band is one year for one city. The colour is that year's measure — how hot, how cold, how windy, or how many earthquakes and cyclones struck nearby.
- 193cities
- 5measures
- 25bands in this example
- $0.99one-time unlock
Measures: Hottest day, Coldest night, Wind, Natural disasters, Temperature.
What it looks like
A real Weather strip.
Drawn by the app’s own code, in its own colours. The four answers — and whether you are right — are in the app.
Weather
One city's hottest day, year by year.
- Mild
- Hot
- Scorching
Can you name it? 25 bands, four answers — in the app.
Name it in the appFree daily · $0.99 to unlockHow to read it
Three things to look for.
You do not need to remember the data. You need to know what kind of shape the thing you are thinking of would make.
- Start with latitude.The average colour of the strip places the city on the globe before anything else does.
- Read the swings.Coastal cities barely change year to year. Inland cities swing hard.
- Disasters are rare on purpose.Natural disasters only includes cities with a real record of quakes or cyclones, so a busy strip is the Pacific Rim or a tropical coast.
Weather is a $0.99 one-time unlock — or part of the $9.99 unlock that includes every category, now and later. It also turns up in the free daily puzzle.
Download on the App StoreFree on iPhoneWeather questions
Is Weather free?
Weather turns up in the free daily puzzle. To play all of it, unlock it once for $0.99, or unlock every category — including ones added later — for $9.99. Neither is a subscription.
Where does the weather data come from?
NASA POWER for temperature and wind, and USGS and NOAA for earthquakes and cyclones. All are US-government public-domain data.
Which measures are there?
Hottest day, coldest night, wind, natural disasters and average temperature, each across 25 years.
Source: Weather data from NASA POWER; earthquake and tropical cyclone data from USGS and NOAA. All public domain.
Play every Weather strip in the app.
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