Saturday 20 June is #ShowYourStripes Day.

Each stripe shown on this banner represents the average temperature in Oxford over one year. The shift from blue to red across the past 211 years tells the story of our warming planet – and the urgency of the moment we’re in.

While temperatures vary from year to year, the overall warming is clear.

This record of temperature was measured at Oxford’s Radcliffe Meteorological Station, which today forms part of Green Templeton College. It is the longest weather record in the UK, with daily temperature measurements since 1814.

Oxford researchers are working on all aspects of this climate change challenge, from understanding the science and its impacts to identifying and implementing solutions across areas including the energy transition, policy, technology, finance and governance.

Download stripes for your favourite place on the planet at showyourstripes.info, and find out more about Oxford’s climate research at www.climate.ox.ac.uk.

The average temperature in 1961-2010 is set as the boundary between blue and red colours, and the colour scale varies from +/- 3 standard deviations of the annual average temperatures between 1901-2000