BBC Weather changes preview

Thanks to Sat Navs etc now, some people do have a staggering lack of geographic sense. A colleague of mine
was convinced that Surrey has a coast (and he lives in Guildford !) and had absolutely no idea where Newcastle upon Tyne was (other than it was 'up north') He drives all over the UK, but has NEVER looked at a map.

Exactly. That is probably the biggest issue I have with these new graphics.

One idea I had is to keep place names on for part of the forecast, but animate them off and replace in the same place with the temperature graphic.

That would also allow to display a couple more place names (like one of the two fairly big cities in the North West, currently missing since Tuesday, for example) and more countrywide temperatures to be displayed.

Because they're worried that people in London, Birmingham and Norwich (to name some) forget where they live.

Motorways on the map ain't gonna help with the latter!

I think you could probably get away with even smaller text for the place names. However, if they also removed the box and used a drop shadow on the text, it would be so much better.

The problem with that, is that the temperatures currently aren’t associated with the place names. By doing that you automatically end up excluding important places. Most importantly there is no Manchester

Everybody knows it is always raining in Manchester though.

*narrows eyes*

*looks out of window*
Okay then...

Sorry, The graphics are nice and all that, but the North America forecasts on BBC WORLD are a complete mess. Geographic boundaries missing or barely view able. Mexico, USA and Canada seem to be one big area. Sadly they dont think showing state or province boundaries matter. Major cities non existent and small insignificant cities shown. (ie They show Eugene Oregon, not but not the major city of Portland or even the state capital of Salem) and barely any cities in the middle of Canada and US are even shown. Edmonton, Calgary, Chicago, Toronto...the list goes on. And the forecasts are only for coastal cities with the exception of Montreal. Huh? The temperature maps are meaningless to show its just colours, might be more useful to show actual temperatures. I guess the weather presenter is bolted to the floor, and not allowed to move to the other side of the screen, so they dont really show much of the country except whats 2 inches from their barely raised finger. Cute but not very informative.

They need to reduce the location name sizes, it's overkill.

What they need to do, is either get rid of the forecast for Jersey and the Orkney/Shetland Isles, or stick them in a box in the top right corner somewhere. Then they could enlarge the map and make it more user-friendly.

Well the wall hasn't gone up yet.