The Weather Thread

It's different, but I don't see how it's an improvement.

It's much worse. Just a standard graphic spelling out the weather without diagrams? May as well go to BBC Online in the late 90s.......

And to think Scotland compained about the BBC one.

Pretty awful - C4's weather graphics actually are alright now, in a similar fashions to the BBC but without the presenter of course. If they want to go with the idea of regional blocks why not at least keep them in the sort of shapes of the regions - doesn't have to be exact, but something a bit more abstract and interesting than squares, which doesn't fit in with C4's current look at all.

An idea which may or may not work in practice but have a 3D Britain in a similar style to the 4 logo broken up into the regions, then use the shadow drop image behind it to have images of the expected weather in the area.

It would make a great desktop widget or phone app, but for the TV... no.

It would make the new on-screen presenter kind of redundant. It's not like they can use their hands to show the weather sweeping across a region when they've only got a square behind them!

Looks more suitable for a short weather bulletin in between adverts or something to me. Not for the actual weather forecast during the News.

It is something they could flash up during the breaks at breakfast I guess.

Do 4 Music still do The Fix with the news & weather on the lower thirds?

What a load of carp!

Oh Lordie. What a stramash! McKaskill will be having a fit!

That's just a concept. Clearly C4 want to find something unique it can do with its weather, probably so they can bump up the price of sponsoring it.

I think its clever and interesting. I do have a feeling you'll get too many people complaining though...

I think it may be an instance of form over function, but I think it's aesthetically interesting. I didn't notice it at first, but the last frame of the concept actually creates a blocky map of the UK, which I actually like. I think it'd work well for an app, but probably not for an in-vision weather bulletin.