The Weather Forecast Thread

I've just seen my first forecast since the new system came into use.

Why the hell is the bottom 1/4 of Carol Kirkwood's map showing France? The perspective is so squewed Scotland seems like it is peeking over the horizon.

The graphics themselves are clear, but they had better sort out the positions of the LICENCE PAYING locations on the map.

I'm really very unhappy about what I just saw.

Gotta say I'm loving these new graphics! I watched the 2:55am report on news 24, and saw that it would be mostly clear here today with some patchy cloud. It's spot on! In the past it was just a case of staring at a symbol and thinking 'Mmm, might rain'. Now you can tell!

Well done to the BBC for using our license fee's to purchase what is by far the most accurate weather system on british TV.
Kudos

Provided your part of the UK gets a look in.

I am not a big fan of places such as Stornaway get a bigger look in than most other parts of Scotland. It seems to me that if you do not live in stornoway or Aberdeen you are screwed.... . Admittedly Glasgow does appear on the flythrough. Anyone noticed how BBC Scotlands weather seems to also show a good chunk of Cumbria and Northern Ireland... Typical Beeb scotland that is

Apologies if this has been spotted already, but the online video of the new graphics is awful - it looks like a 16:9 crop of a 4:3 crop of the correct feed - one can just make out the bottom of the temperature squares at Shetland, (though I haven't seen them on a TV yet, the day/time aston is also quite hard up against the right hand side, which is why I call crop, given that it fits onto a 4:3 picture in the caps)

Maybe this is the reason you get France on TV, so when they badly crop it for online we don't lose London.

Personally I think it is a set of good ideas, not very well executed. Previously trying to guess which symbol I lived near was a pain, and often Edinburgh and Glasgow (areas with completely different climates) were covered by one symbol.

While everyone knows the weather forecast cannot be accurate to the nearest OS grid northing/easting, it can be more accurate than symbols, and its probably comfortably within the accuracy that can be determined by looking at the map on a screen.

I also think they should stop showing off the movement quite so much, there's no need to zoom over parts of the country in close up, before people can tell where they are - presumably once we start getting "weather stories" they'll use it to call up areas of interest before using the wider shots to do the whole country's weather, instead of the current obsession with making the South West even larger than it already appears by zooming in.

That looks excellent.

Yes although, while the English regions' programmes are now longer, the other nations have shorter programmes than before.

As someone who sails during the summer, it is useful to know what the wind might do - even if it is flat calm so that I know it could a long night of tedious boredom floating in the middle of the lough rather than racing that night! If there is a storm coming, it could clearly be seen on the old charts - useful to know so as to make a decision whether to go out or not. I need to look at the wind in areas other than my own. Lots of isobars - strong winds, few isobars - calm / light winds. I'm not convinced by this set of graphics.

It is nice to have a fancy fly through but surely it could have been bolted on to the old presentation instead of this? Me thinks I might have to watch RTE's forecast which are quite similar to the BBC's former presentation.

Mind you I am in the camp of people who says the BBC shouldn't have ditched the balloons (although skateboarders isn't bad) so I'm probably just an old curmugeon.

I thought that was just for the first day, to give the regions extra time to explain the new graphics to viewers, I'm sure I read that somewhere. It'll be a shame if that 6:55 forecast is gone for good.

No I believe the change is permanent.

Well it does make sense to focus on having a more detailed regional forecast at that time of the evening -- mind you in what way are the nations' programmes shorter? I don't think I noticed that.

Because the nations didn't take the trail between the network news and the English regions opt, or the weather forecast just before 7pm - both of which have now gone.