Article on new BBC Weather graphics

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moss Founding member 23 August 2004 4:43pm

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"If you were to make a game like that now, people would ask why when we have the technology of Xboxes and PlayStations."

Erm, games like that are being made now, if you look in the right places.

Yes, I have nothing to add to this discussion.

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AdamP 23 August 2004 4:44pm

c@t posted:

What, you mean partially obscure the new graphics with the old ones, so nobody can tell what's going on?

I'm sure if Michael Fish is going to be able to cope with it, then the rest of Britain's elderly population will. Anyone would've thought it was a fundamental lifestyle change.

Michael Fish is retiring in the autumn, before the new graphics come in.

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cat 23 August 2004 4:48pm

Moz posted:

The can't get rid of the old graphics.

Yes the can.

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NickyS Founding member 23 August 2004 4:52pm

Well I've not seen them but we've been giving away magnetic symbols at the News and Sport on Tour and a certain weather person who was there said they will become collectors items as those symbols are going. Now how radical they will be who knows but it seems pointless to me bringing in loads of new 3d stuff and then sticking with the old symbols that have been around for ever.

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marksi 23 August 2004 4:59pm

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As for marksi's comment that they won't be changing signficantly

I didn't say that the weather forecasts as a whole wouldn't be changing significantly, I said that as far as I knew the weather symbols themselves wouldn't be changing significantly.

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AdamP 24 August 2004 8:39am

I see MediaGuardian.co.uk have picked up on this now:

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1289562,00.html

It does sound as though the graphics will be radically different. Maybe they'll just incorporate the old symbols in the summary at the end.

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NickyS Founding member 24 August 2004 8:47am

The Media Guardian article certainly makes it sound like it's a big radical change ... symbols or no symbols ... which is what I'd heard

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Big Brother Founding member 24 August 2004 9:27am

The BBC article does say the symbols are going? Maybe I read it wrong but people seem to believe it says they're staying.

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Spencer 24 August 2004 9:31am

BBC Article posted:

The weather icons will not be relegated to the history books though; they will be built into the system too.

Admittedly though the article does seem a bit contradictory.

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Moz 24 August 2004 10:44am

Click here for an exclusive picture of the new graphics....

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cat 24 August 2004 10:58am

I think if you watch the whole of the TVNZ weather report you will see how the existing symbols will fit in with the new look.

They are not going to be able to provide stunningly accurate cloud cover representations of 4 days in advance... so for that, they will use the old symbols to give a rough idea of what to expect for the day ahead.

As far as I have seen, the 3D flyovers etc. are only good for the day they are done on, and the day after that... they aren't going to be able to produce one for a week ahead, because they won't have data that accurate.

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Sput 25 August 2004 7:00pm

c@t posted:

As far as I have seen, the 3D flyovers etc. are only good for the day they are done on, and the day after that... they aren't going to be able to produce one for a week ahead, because they won't have data that accurate.

In fact things are about to improve there - when the Met Office opened their new place in Exeter this year they fired up a new supercomputer, theoretically it will improve forecast accuracy in the week-ahead-ish timeframe.

Well in theory.

Of course there'll never be a hurricane in England. Awww I'll miss Fish, I think he's fab - king of the smoking jacket that he was wearing the other day!

(August 2004)