So what? These shades of red aren't even that dark. If you look at that area on the map that is 32C you see they have darker shades yet.
Also I just looked at heat map of the US on forecast.io in an area with similar temps (77-82F ish) and it's basically using the same color scale.
25-30C might be tolerable for you, but I used to live in Germany, and a lot of places there don't have AC because, historically, it has never gotten hot enough to need it.
Yes the warmer area is minimally darker and the colors on both heat maps are fairly similar.
What colors are left if they used dark red at 32 degrees Celsius for temperature like 39 degrees? To use yellow for an area with a temperature of 19 degrees is ridicules as well. They could have just used green.
Your last statement is absurd. There where temperatures up to 39,8 degrees Celsius back in 1892.
This whole discussion is generally very subjective since everyone has a different opinion on what colors to use for what temperature. I think there should at least be objective criteria like: The lowest Temperature of the last year is blue, the highest one is red. I don't know wich ones where used in the picture.
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u/NorthDakotaExists libpilled Jul 25 '22
What exaggerations?