“It was really apparent when cycling from my home in Edinburgh that it could be dry if you headed west, but wet if you headed east, and vice versa,” says artist Rebecca Kaye, alias Ploterre, who produces pieces that involve plotting data in creative ways. This observation led her to wonder if it was always raining somewhere.
Kaye gathered Met Office precipitation records for 366 different locations across the British Isles. The resulting piece, Always Raining Somewhere, has 122 rows representing the days from 1 October to 31 January – the wettest period, says Kaye – and 90 columns for the years since 1934.
