weathergami

English

Etymology

Blend of weather +‎ origami, modeled after scorigami.

Noun

weathergami (plural weathergamis)

  1. (meteorology) A combination of high and low temperatures that has never occurred before.
    • 2023 October 1, Jonathan D. W. Kahl, “Weathergami”, in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, volume 104, number 10, →DOI:
      To show real-world examples of weathergami charts, several examples were prepared for locations with different climate types (Table 1).
    • 2023 November 9, Christopher Ingram, ““Weathergami” charts paint new portrait of Minnesota climate”, in Minnesota Reformer[1]:
      If we just plopped down a dot for every observation we’d end up with an undifferentiated black blob, so the weathergami technique visualizes frequency of temperature pairs: we divide the chart area into a fine hexagonal grid, and then color each hexagon according to how many daily observations fall within it.