Quantifying the Hot Summer of 2024 in Livermore (Bay Area), CA compared to previous two decades [2004 – 2024]. [OC]

Interesting but a little difficult to interpret. It’s not clear how the ocean buoy data are correlated, if at all.

What would it look like if instead of a vertical bar chart, you had the seasons on the y-axis (keeping years on the x-axis) and shaded the grid cells by number of extreme days, with the color bar along the bottom?