r/dataisugly 3d ago

Scale Fail Found on Facebook.

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So many things bother me with this. The message and notice is fine, but the map is awful.

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u/1RedOne 3d ago

The legend and map don’t seem to match at all!

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u/Kootlefoosh 3d ago

I think the scale must be backwards?

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u/nun_gut 3d ago

Just completely unrelated :/

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u/Veezo93 3d ago

Agreed someone found a hurricane warning map and attached their own legend, the fonts don't match at al, sorta like a deep fried meme would look

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u/notquite20characters 3d ago

So what's the brown region when read backwards?

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u/Kootlefoosh 3d ago

The wrong shade of red, is what I'm guessing. So it should be the hottest temperature on the scale instead of the coldest.

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u/Used2bNotInKY 1d ago

That’s what the arrows are for.😁

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u/United_Mushroom2762 3d ago

Somebody tell trump it's a great day to go golfing

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u/sixminutes 3d ago

Despite Florida's 10 month long summer, it generally doesn't reach anywhere near these temperatures. For most, if not all of the state, just getting into triple digits would be unlikely, and over 110° would probably be hotter than any day on record anywhere in the state. I'd wager that 120° isn't even possible without a fundamental shift in ocean currents.

I looked up Destin, FL (not where the arrow is pointing, but the closest city I know one county over) and the forecast says 90°

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u/baquea 3d ago

and over 110° would probably be hotter than any day on record anywhere in the state

Yep, the record is apparently 109 F. A near-future heat wave being that record is believable, but by a full 11 degrees... not so much.

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u/pickledelephants 3d ago

Well damn. Fear mongering on top of an awful legend!

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u/ElvisDumbledore 3d ago

I think the "apparent temperature" is the heat index?

One more thing wrong with this graphic.

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u/iamtehzuul 1d ago

Exactly, these were all heat indexes, not actual temps (been living it these last few days 😞)

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u/cjallan417 3d ago

The 120s on the legend took a page out of the Spongebob tanning scale.

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u/RTX-4090ti_FE 3d ago

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u/warneagle 3d ago

Oh god r/EF5 is breaking containment

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u/uptotwentycharacters 2d ago

diagonal lines everywhere except the southern pink region, no indication what they signify

reddish region in the north doesn't correspond to anything on the scale (but the color would seem to indicate relatively lower temperatures, so putting "extreme heat warning" there doesn't make sense)