How it works

Three steps, one day

1. Pick the day. A birthday, a wedding, the day someone arrived. Any date from 1 January 1948, anywhere in the United States. That is where the continuous weather record begins, and we do not go earlier because we will not guess.

2. We find the record. For that day and that place we pull the wind, the surface pressure, the cloud, the rainfall, the snow on the ground and the sea ice — six-hourly, from the same archive that meteorologists use.

3. We draw it and print it. The wind is drawn as streamlines, the pressure as the isobars of that day, the Earth as our artistic impression of the satellite and weather data. Your town is marked in gold. Then it is printed in the USA on heavy matte paper, canvas or in a frame, and shipped free.

What arrives

A print that could only be that day. A calm winter high looks nothing like a coastal storm, and neither looks like the day next to it. The italic line beneath the date is written from the numbers: the wind speed and direction, the nearest pressure system, in plain words.

How long it takes

Posters ship in two to four business days. Canvas and framed prints in three to five. If something is not right, we redraw it.