International Weather Coverage

And a new studio - weather and sport production has moved from Copenhagen to Aarhus (Denmark's second largest city). The new studio is located at Dokk.1 - which is the building you see in the drone footage at the end of that clip.

I've seen there are some criticisms from Danes that the new set up is a bit distracting -- and in particular, that the big screen looks a bit washed out and harder to read. (See for example at 1:00 in the clip.) The weather maps are the same as before -- it's only the straps and titles that have changed.

And the cities on their international weather maps were all Air Berlin destinations!

That's embarrasing! And I don't think I could take such a forecast seriously.

The intrusive sponsorship resulted in the entire forecast being officially classified as a commercial. (The word "Dauerwerbesendung" on the screen translates roughly to "extended commercial broadcast" -- an infomercial, in other words.)

An English-language weather forecast from Hong Kong's TVB Pearl:

A forecast from North Korea...



...and from Mongolia (weirdly, the almost five-minute-long forecast doesn't include a single weather map):

Those graphics are awful

Here's a South Korean forecast for comparison:

Not surprising that North Korea has graphics that are probably from the late 90s while the South Korean forecast has modern graphics.

Did you expect North Korea to have the best, most high-tech graphics?

Here are some more recent ones from South Korean TV stations.

MBC NEWS - Weather - Jan. 31, 2018

SBS NEWS - Weather - Jan. 5, 2018

Arirang News (English-language network operated by the Korea International Broadcasting Foundation) - Weather - Jan. 24, 2018

Weather forecast from Taiwan:
EBC NEWS - Morning Weather - Feb. 17, 2018 (Chinese New Year version)

TVBS NEWS - Morning Weather - Feb. 15, 2018 (Chinese New Year version)

Formosa News - Formosa Weather - Feb. 13, 2018

SET NEWS (SETN) - SET Weather - Feb 13, 2018