Historical rainfall data chart depicting days with rain, rain days over 100mm, and days without rain in Hong Kong from 1884 to 2021, highlighting the wettest and driest years.

Raining cats and dogs

Featuring almost 50,000 days of weather data from the Hong Kong Observatory, this piece visualizes daily rainfall from 1884 to 2021 through a simple bar chart. I find this project highly effective precisely because of its straightforward and striking nature.

A print back page for the South China Morning Post that tells you at a glance the rainy records in Hong Kong for the latest 47,765 days.

Project in collaboration with Han Huang.

Blue rainfall chart showing the frequency of days with 100mm or more of rain from 1920 to 1963, with a note about data gaps during World War II.

Detail page print.

A few views of the print paper.

An infographic showing rainfall data in Hong Kong from 1884 to 2021, titled 'Raining cats and dogs,' with vertical lines representing days of rain and circles marking significant weather events.
A graphical chart showing rainfall data categorized by the driest year (1963 with 901.1mm of rain) and the wettest year (1997 with 3,343mm of rain).

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