The New ITV & BBC Weather Thread

Just seen a post from Ruth Wignall on her Facebook page that she was at a training session at ITV Meridian for the new ITV weather graphics which launch later this year.

Clare Nasir presented a forecast for the MetOffice the other day - it popped up on their Twitter feed.

Susan Powell presenting the weather on the BBC tonight, haven't seen her around for a while. Has she been on leave or something?

Thought we hadn't see her for a while - although sure she's done some BBC national radio shifts recently.

Talking of the BBC Weather - where are we with the new none-Met Office contract?

It's been over a year since news of a change in data suppliers, so thought we'd be with the new suppliers by now - or was something agreed to continue, with the Met Office, and news of it smuggled out without anyone noticing?

Still showing on national and regions weather "in association with The Met Office" so no change yet.

A report from the FT last year says the new deals are meant to start in October this year.
(It's the top result on this Google results page, which should let you through the paywall)

Owain Wyn Evans presenting the weather on BBC London News today, is that a regular occurrence?

Semi-regular. The London hub has been one presenter down since Wendy Hurrell went on maternity leave.

The Guardian are reporting today that the new provider commences in June 2017

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/aug/01/new-met-office-service-better-looking-weather-forecasts

Is Channel 5 Weather with Sian Welby produced by ITN or Channel 5 itself?

It's produced by ITN. Sian is usually in the same studio as the 5 News team.

And when could we start seeing the use of this on ITV?