The New ITV & BBC Weather Thread

Not just you at all.

I'll third that.

I do miss the detailing from the old maps of the major motorways and A-roads. I did quite like that level of detail.

National forecast with Becky Mantin.

Why do they feel the need to explain how the graphics work, light is sunshine, dark is cloud... The BBC have been doing it for years! People have remote controls ITV!

Well it is a new graphics and weather system...its also a good time to 'show off'.

Another prime example of focus groups being used to justify changes. I have never ever agreed that the light/dark shading means I get a more understandable forecast. For me, symbols mean much more than light/dark shading and/or floaty grey cloud. I'm sorry, I just don't get why this seems to have become the default way of presenting weather.

Ask a room full of people if they want more accurate detail, of course they'll say yes. Ask that same bunch of people actually what their weather will be like after they've watched a map of swirly animating shading, I bet very few will actually be able to give you an answer. Show them a map with Suns, Clouds and Raindrops on it - in my opinion - they'll be much more across it.

Now ... bring back the satellite picture on a caption stand with a yellow pointer and, while you're at it, a lovely picture painted by a 5 year old...

Well they can't just tailor it to what you like and understand

I liked that myself because you could identify the exact point on the map where you live rather than just going off the name.

I do like these new Graphics as they are much brighter and Granada Reports was better as rather than using a plasma screen with a tilted view of the map; these used a CSO Screen. They could still have a proper wall in the studio though to interact with the presenters.

I don't expect them to. I do expect them to tell the story in an understandable way though, and I don't believe the majority of viewers get as much from this style of graphics presentation as they did from symbols on maps.

Yeah, I do sometimes see no rain by my area on the weather map, but then it does end up raining. The new style can sometimes be too precise geographically, making them more likely to be wrong.

It's one of those situations where if someone introduces something new, particularly when the BBC does it, everything else automatically looks old and out dated by default.

Symbols will probably come round again, just like how stand up news presentation came and went.