Websites and social media feeds highlighting maps intrigue me
Posted By RichC on January 9, 2025
A map by region illustrating the larger variations of temperatures than below
Since I love looking at maps of all kinds, I’m always attracted to the ones that trigger intrigue me and helps me learn a little more about our world. I especially enjoy weather related maps 
(perhaps they often relate to aviation and sailing), and more specifically maps illustrating “temperatures” around the world depending on latitude. Most of us learn or know that it is warmer near the equator and cooler near the North and South Pole, but what is interesting to me when looking at different countries around the world is that a few countries are located where there is a significantly wider range of warm and cold weather (above) even if average temperature maps don’t show it (below).
The temperature mapping and BrilliantMaps.com post reminds me of a book I read last year by Peter Zeihan called “The Accidental Super Power: Ten Years On.” The history of the rise and fall of global powers and current domination by the United States is premised in a variety of geographic strengths regarding our country’s location (and I’ll add our founding as a democratic republic to tie in politics). The abundance of natural resources, global position relative to adversaries, navigable ports and waterways and ambitious people with an incentive to innovate (Capitalism) does give America the edge when it comes to excelling not only during the 19th and 20th century, but in this 21st century, if we govern ourselves in a way that prevents dissent from within and as a super power that is respected by others.
The annual average temperature of each country based over its entire land area
Check out Brilliant Maps X.com feed if you enjoy a daily look at the world through maps.
Edit Add: More for my own testing of a larger map file, but wanted to include a map said to be from the 1930s … “A Bostonian’s Idea of the United States of America.” Likely not much has changed … part joke, part true!
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