New Met Office website!

[multi cellular thunderstorm]

Just noticed this on the Met Office website:

http://www.met-office.gov.uk/corporate/pre...pr20061124.html

"improved navigation and increased access to weather data - will be incorporated on the new web site."

Sounds like there could be some good improvements.

Will look forward to that

[The Eagle]

Interesting, lets hope for much broader data

[The PIT]

News Flash.

New Website development will be canceled to buy a new computer so we won't mess up on future warnings. An extra Duo Core processor should fix the problem.

[multi cellular thunderstorm]

Wow look at the Met Ofice website, it's totally different

Theres even a whole new radar!

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/

Edited November 29, 2006 by multi cellular thunderstorm

[Cakie]

Wow look at the Met Ofice website, it's totally different

Theres even a whole new radar!

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/

It's certainly different

It will take a bit of time to navigate my way around

[Rustynailer]

I just noticed it and i like it already

[Jane Louise]

It's cool Gloucestershire has now been put in the South West location now instead of the West Country which I was always unsure of

Edited November 29, 2006 by Jane Louise

[I can't believe it's not better]

I'm not sure I like their new radar, unless it's my old monitor. Bright lime green background? I don't like change.

[grab my graupel]

Much better, I was bored of the same old screen,

lets hope that its an improvement!

[multi cellular thunderstorm]

I like the satellite imagery, it seems to update much quicker, its only 13:15 and the 13:00 image is on now.

You can also see previous images for the last few hours which you couldn't before.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/satpics/latest_uk_vis.html

[Iceberg]

Better and quicker IMO.

Agree the precip radar is a bit iffy, but the forecasts section is a huge improvement.

Probably one of the best gov sites to be honest.

[Verglas]

wondered why my favourite links didn't work any more, thought it was the DNS playing up, why don't they just put a page telling you to go to the new site rather than just a switch it off so you get a '404' message !

or would that be too simple ?

[Ross B]

First weather warning on the new site out now?

Looks pretty good. A bit more data, after filling all these surveys out on about adding more data to the site they finaly add more! Glad to see it's going in the right direction

[wallopweather]

Gutted - Middle Wallop no longer listed in the Observations ! Was I really the only one using that data. Apart from that the site looks great, more thoughts once I have had a further look later on today.

[James M]

A vast improvement although I to agree about the radar and it took a bit of time to find it at first but other than that much better.

[Kent Snow]

I personally quite like the new look. Agree with others that the radar is a bit iffy.

[Cableguy]

Much the same as others, overall a good update to the site, although the colour on the rainfall page is shocking :blink:

[tom_f123]

much better

[johnholmes]

certainly an improvement but not yet tried the radar which some of you don't like.

[Calrissian]

RE: Radar

Only the Met Office could employ a web designer who decided to have lime green land colour, and then have certain types of rainfall totally blend in with the land.

Idiots !

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Even remedial webmasters know not to do that. Ohh, it'll be changed.

Any guesses on how long it'll take them to change it?

I'm guessing probably 3-4 months minimum.

Calrissian: Infinately superior to those Government fools

[Cableguy]

RE: Radar

Only the Met Office could employ a web designer who decided to have lime green land colour, and then have certain types of rainfall totally blend in with the land.

Idiots !

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Even remedial webmasters know not to do that. Ohh, it'll be changed.

Any guesses on how long it'll take them to change it?

I'm guessing probably 3-4 months minimum.

Calrissian: Infinately superior to those Government fools

Totally agree, its a shame as the rest of the updates are very good, being able to zoom in etc, if only we could have the BBC Weather website UK Map, and METO Radar Overlay, that would be excellent

Edited November 29, 2006 by Cableguy

[Mondy]

I actually like it! Big improvement and seems to upload faster as soon as you click on links, etc.

RE: Radar

Only the Met Office could employ a web designer who decided to have lime green land colour, and then have certain types of rainfall totally blend in with the land.

Doesn't bother me - i'm colour blind, y'see! :blink:

[West is Best]

Calrissian: Infinately superior to those Government fools

Quite why some people feel the need to put the boot into the Met Office is beyond me. There are many brilliant and dedicated people working up the road. I sometimes wonder if it's sour grapes ...

Anyway, excellent new site. Very impressed.

One thing: has anyone found the 'yesterday's weather' link yet?!

[Cumulonimbus Tower]

Just noticed this on the Met Office website:

http://www.met-office.gov.uk/corporate/pre...pr20061124.html

"improved navigation and increased access to weather data - will be incorporated on the new web site."

Lets hope it is as much of a hit as the new look forecast charts were when they came out :blink:

[Don]

Quite like it. Certainly an improvement.

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