And that's another thing we've lost. The first slide has always had an appropriate picture to it, be it umbrellas, leaves, the snowplough etc. Now there's just a generic globe.
Apart from at the end of some bulletins it seems when the globe is altered!
To be honest all people want to know is if they should put the washing out, what should we ware. A sun and a rain symbol do this fine.
You've hit the nail on the head (apart from the embarassing spelling mistake!).
We're not weather-experts or interested in pressure charts, isobars or thermals. We want to know what the weather's doing where we are for the next 24 hours largely. These new graphics appear as if they're going to make that function harder (not very much harder admittedly, but surely "progress" should mean it should get easier?)
I don't see how anyone can say this is an improvement!
Have a look at the old map... look at the number of 'dark cloud+rain+sunshine' symbols. Now what the hell is that supposed to mean?
It's going to rain, be cloudy, and sunny?
Can't you see the pitfalls of that system?
The graphics show exactly when and exactly where it will be sunny, cloudy, whatever. I don't want a sodding raincloud over my city if it's not actually going to rain here, but will within the 40 mile radius that the cloud actually covers.
It isn't change for change's sake, it is a sensible approach to replaced a highly outdated system.
I don't see how anyone can say this is an improvement!
Have a look at the old map... look at the number of 'dark cloud+rain+sunshine' symbols. Now what the hell is that supposed to mean?
It's going to rain, be cloudy, and sunny?
Can't you see the pitfalls of that system?
The graphics show exactly when and exactly where it will be sunny, cloudy, whatever. I don't want a sodding raincloud over my city if it's not actually going to rain here, but will within the 40 mile radius that the cloud actually covers.
It isn't change for change's sake, it is a sensible approach to replaced a highly outdated system.
The symbols were easier to understand and gave you an idea and to be honest I'd rather get a simple idea of the weather as opposed to an indepth forecast where I have to work out whether or not it is rain or cloud and how heavy it is. If I wanted the weather for my village I'd log onto bbc.co.uk and look that way.
Having watched a couple of the forecasts on the Weatherview website, all I can say is this - you'll get used to it.
The only reason it seems harder to understand at the moment, is that we're so used to looking out for the sun, cloud, and rain symbols.
All that is different now is that these symbols are now in the form of different colours on the map. It took me all of three minutes to get used to recognising dark brown as cloud, light brown as sunny, and about 2 seconds to see that the blue animation was rain. After I had adjusted, I found that the forecasts were actually much more useful, and interesting than before.
I don't see how anyone can say this is an improvement!
Have a look at the old map... look at the number of 'dark cloud+rain+sunshine' symbols. Now what the hell is that supposed to mean?
It's going to rain, be cloudy, and sunny?
It means light rain with sunny spells or, in other words, light showers. Pretty straightforward if you ask me and I'm sure many others will agree.
I'm not very keen on the new look but will give it a fair chance and look forward to seeing it on screen. However, and I'm not just saying this, I mean it, despite the BBC's record of being quite stubborn when it comes to things like this, I can't see the new look lasting without tweaks to make things a bit clearer i.e. bringing back the symbols.
