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What’s on your kitchen counter this morning? Who has room for placemats and piles of mail when there’s climate knitting to be done?
Today we’re super excited to be blocking the very first United States New Normal Tempestry right there on the kitchen counter.
This piece will be one part of a Tempestry triptych including global, US, and Washington State New Normal Tempestries that will be exhibited in our public library this winter.
Eventually, our goal is to have more and more knitters and crocheters make similar triptychs for their own states, to be displayed in their own libraries and other public spaces.
We rolled out these new kits through our website last night, and it seems this particular Tempestry data visualization hits a nerve — tonight we will be processing orders for the the contiguous US, Michigan, and California.
Each New Normal Tempestry depicts annual deviation-from-average-temperature for a particular place, usually going back to about 1895 depending on available data. The darker the blue, the colder than average the year. The darker the red, the hotter than average the year.