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    BBC Weather Forecasts and Graphics Discussion

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    I am increasingly annoyed by the inconsistency of the national forecasts.

    Many 'presenters' now show the additional place names and the wind speed arrows. But others don't. So some days the full pisture is presented, but others is back to the simplistic - will it be sunny, cloudy or raining limit of information. Surely all presenters should be told to show a minimum of information - and build fromt here that includes the wind and smaller towns?

    Monday 11th July 2005

    in Weather reports

    Posted · Edited by shuggee

    Very hot and still day here.

    Not sure what the max temp was - about 26C I would imagine.

    But what was very apparent above the city today was a layer of smog. It was a brownish-orange colour and was clearly visible from above the city (where I work). Even more unpleasant was looking out over East Lothian where the power station at Cockenzie was chucking out a thin layer of yellow/brown smog right over Eastern Edinburgh. It looked like a slick of pollution in a lake at about, say 2000ft.

    Very unpleasant. Glad I don't live in LA.

    Need Help On The Site/forum?

    in Help, support and feedback

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    I think I'm not explaining myself properly (quel surprise!).

    The .gif animated avatars work fine on N-W on my machine at home. However they don't work on this one here at the office. They do work here in the office on the source page of the animated avatars - but not on the N-W pages. Weird!

    Thursday 30th June 2005

    in Weather reports

    Posted

    Mixed day - warm with brightness and then heavy showers this afternoon. No thunder though.

    Friend flew into Edinburgh at teatime - and said it was the most turbulent landing sh'ed ever experienced.

    Meanwhile, this evening the haar has rolled in and it is particularly foggy now. First time this season.

    BBC Weather Forecasts and Graphics Discussion

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    Fair enough mb - the viewers' comments are king.

    It was just very interesting getting a pan-European perspective on different weather-forecasting styles. IMHO the BBC's style was the least good. And having got used to it at home, and even quite like it - it was back down to earth with a bump.

    Having said that of course, it might just be that the BBC are the bravest risk-takers and well ahead of the pack...

    But euronews weather (a French owned media company) was easily the best to follow and most detailed graphically.

    BBC Weather Forecasts and Graphics Discussion

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    Having just been on holiday - I have had the pleasure of 24hour rolling news and weather on BBC World in the hotel.

    A whole host of presenters and a differnt regional focus with every forecast at xx27 past each hour.

    Other channels available in the hotel included a couple of German news channels, Euronews, and Bulgarian news. All of which use the traditional symbols and maps. This brought me back to earth with a wider-view perspective now that I have got used to the graphics here at home.

    Needless to say the BBC World forecast looks cheap, unprofessional, less easy to understand and much less detailed than all the other competing channels. Only the professionalism of the forecasters/presenters describing the weather, both verbally and with physcial movement saves the day. The BBC World forecast's graphics are quite simply an embarrasment compared to the other channels.

    New Bbc Graphics

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    The forecasts have spot on this week, the accuracy in the forecasts has not diminshed if anything it has improved, would certainly agree about the need to increase the length of the forcasts though.

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    Not so for here Jackone. B)

    Wednesday's rain - the timing, duration and heaviness was completely wrong. Even the 8.30am/8.45am forecasts that morning at only 2 hours before the event, were totally inaccurate.

    New Bbc Graphics

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    I have to say that tnoight's main forcast at around 7pm was well done by Alex Deakin. The zoom-in on Eastern england was excellent - even the silly meaningless wind arrows were telling a story; together with temperature shading showing how the temp rises away from the east coast. If this sort of standard can be maintained and built upon over the coming weeks - as things develop and the graphics are tweeked, then it's going to ok imho.

    One thing - lots of talk int he week about heavy thunderstorms - but then no representation of thorms on the maps; simply rain. It's like launching the system in November, and forgetting to invent a representation for snow. OOOOOoops; this needs urgent attention.

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