After the runaway success of the Partly Cloudy iOS weather app , we at Raureif created the Weather Radials infographic poster as an analogue companion to the app. In countless iterations, we applied the app’s radial daily forecast visualization to an annual review visualization on the poster. The resulting design is minimalistic: the colorful infographics consist only of lines and circles, accompanied by carefully considered typography. All elements are arranged on a simple grid, providing visual structure for the poster. The radial visualizations were created with Processing and then arranged as a poster in InDesign.

The Helsinki font

We think typography is the foundation of great graphic design. That’s why we hand-picked Helsinki™ by award-winning type designer Ludwig Übele to give the Weather Radials poster (and before that, the Partly Cloudy app) a bold, sturdy look.

The data

The data used for the visualization was collected from the Open Weather Map project, the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and Weather Underground. To create the visualizations, we parsed and revised the data to create a set of comprehensive JSON files. The weather events were identified manually from news sources from all over the world.