by the time I get my bearings and work out where I am.
Agreed.
I think that's one of the key problems. I can't even work out where central Wiltshire is quickly enough to get an idea of our weather, even though it's down the bottom in the big (important) bit called southern England.
Just imagine you live in Edinburgh for the next forcast- and try and get an accurate representation of what the weather's going to be as fly near it and then away from it.
And we're relatively close to the English border.
Having said this I do find the lack of temperature/any information for the entire Midlands quite funny too.
There will have to be changes- this is one hell of a massive cock up.
But then the Welsh don't have quite the same identity crisis and complex that Scotland does, so they don't feel quite the same need to kick up such a huge stink. Yet.
This isn't a case of the Scots getting their knickers in a knot because of some nationalist issue - I simply want a clearer map on the forecast. To use a needlessly squewed image of the UK making things *less* clear is nonsensical.
But thanks for making me feel like somehow it's my own personal identity crisis at fault.
Not only the "tiny dot" issue but the flyover only goes to the border and never goes over Scotland.............oh yes Devon, Cornwell, East Anglia but NOT Scotland...but the this is the BBC what else would you expect??
At least John Hammond showed us some flying arrows this evening indicating wind direction. That said I have no idea of the wind speed. Because the map is angled the arrows at the top of the map are going to be smaller than those at the bottom, but as they also vary in size depending on wind speed and you have nothing to compare them to size-wise, it all becomes rather complicated. Not really "clearer" I'm afraid.
So I suppose the graphics are not bad themselves but it's the 3D factor... imagine the same graphics but a 2D top down view of the country, would that look better? Or at least 3D but with a heavily reduced angle.
Also I find mixing the temperature with weather very annoying, the numbers obscure the weather, and we miss the temperature for most of the country, is that really clearer? I would still have a seperate temperature chart for the day and coming night.
The wind arrows are completely useless, they could at least bring back the old ones and put them into this new system..
I dont understand the thinking of these people at the BBC Weather Centre.
Regarding Scotland - why not just ditch the 3D view and do a similar view to Sky News? Or do the BBC not want everyone to clock the fact they've essentially ripped off Mr Murdoch's weather graphics?
I'm afraid it is a problem when London and the south east are on permanent close up, while those of us up here are virtually unable to see what the weather is where we are.
And some of us would prefer not to have to suffer Reporting Scotland to get a decent weather forecast, thanks.
All you have got to remember for a Scottish Weather Forecast is that there are lots of hills, very cold and therefore bound to rain!
Can't go far wrong with that assumption!
Mind you, that's a fair point. I've got an ongoing theory that Scottish TV save money on paying the Met Office by putting rain down for every single day, on the basis they'll be right 80% of the time.
Check it next time on Sky Digital - it's always flippin' rain, no matter what relation this bears to the actual weather.
by the time I get my bearings and work out where I am.
Agreed.
I think that's one of the key problems. I can't even work out where central Wiltshire is quickly enough to get an idea of our weather, even though it's down the bottom in the big (important) bit called southern England.
What is wrong with you people? Are you American? I know that more than half of Americans fail to point to the good ol' US of A on a map of the world but I thought us Brits were slightly better educated!!
If you can't pinpoint where you are on a map of the UK, either learn - or get deservedly wet. I've always thought adding place names was insulting to the intelligence!
