Great visualization of depth and time. Just a small recommendation: instead of bar graphs maybe just a map of the state with color changes in the areas identified by the bars. That way you can see where the activity is happening.

Thank you! Yeah it's definitely a trade-off with the 3d plot blocking some of the points from view, I just think its worth it to see the snow height as an actual height that's rising

This seems like it might disregard much of Eastern Washington. I'm pretty sure there's more snow than indicated, up in areas like Mt Spokane.

Nah it seems about right, Mt. spokane gets like 100 less inches a year than Snoqualmie and like 250 less inches than Stevens.

The Cascades definitely pull out waaaay more moisture

This shows it like it has less than 2ft of snow ever. That doesn't seem right to me is all. When I've driven around up there on the mountain roads at elevation, there's definitely more that 3 or 4 ft of snow up there that I've had to dig myself out of.

I’m definitely reading the colors as more in the 4 foot range, I think the issue is the colors are not super distinguishable below 5 feet

Cool representation. Edward Tufte fanboy here, so any qualitative visual draws me like a moth to a flame.

I thought this was in r/minecraft at first

I love viridis

Really cool. Should consider posting this to r/dataisbeautiful

Yes, OP! PLEASE do this. This really is beautiful data.

Thanks for posting

I did and a lot of people hated on me! Even though it was my first ever post lol

Color only would work better rather than trying to make this 3D for no reason. 3D charts often occlude or distort the data to the point of not being clear, especially if the user can't rotate or manipulate the chart.

I'd crosspost these (WA and the other states you've created maps for) to /r/Maps and /r/MapPorn as well.

nice will do! hopefully they don’t roast me like dataisbeautiful lmao

Also consider freezing the final frame for like 15 seconds so the loop doesn't prevent people from seeing it.

oh true!

Good snow pack means less water problems in the summer. Nice to see it’s not too bad despite the atmospheric rivers shifting south to Cali.

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I thought it was cool to represent the depth with shape rather than just color, which is definitely visually clearer but not as interesting! Cool map OP

I love that it localizes itself right next to i5 🙃

Yeah this shouldn’t be 3d