A while back I saw Chris Campbell’s global maps from the Financial Times like in this Tweet and I thought I needed to do it in R. In this first post of 2023 we’ll see how we can access the GFS (Global Forecast System) data and visualize it with {ggplot2}, even though there are several ways, in this case we use the Google Earth Engine API via the {rgee} package for accessing the GFS data. We will select the most recent run and calculate the maximum temperature for the next few days.
