Watch Europe Heat Up: Average Temperature by Country Since 1743 [OC]

Edit: Tools used: Python (Matplotlib + geopandas + plotly)

I’m a big believer in climate change but this data doesn’t really show Europe heating up all that much on average. The starting year, 1743, seems to be an outlier. If you had started one year later, for example, Spain and Portugal stay that pale yellow color the entire time.

Am I missing something? Doesn’t appear that much different

It hasn’t been cold enough in my country for 28 years to do the national long distance ice-skating competition. The rivers just aren’t freezing enough anymore 🙁

I can’t telll anything from this lousy animation and got bored around 1900.

Just use a static line chart if you want to actually convey some information.