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PE
Pete Founding member
jay posted:
Have you seen a Geography syllabus lately? It's all about farming and volcanoes these days! We don't actually learn about places!

And just for the record, it isn't just me in the whole country that doesn't understand what they mean - so don't be so patronising.


what do places have to do with weather? Places come under Travel and Tourism and not Geography, Geography is the science of the earth.

In Scotland this year the very first thing on our course was atmospheric and oceanic circulation and how it runs the weather. In Standard Grade we learned how to predict weather from isobars and the sheets consisted of isonbars and you had to draw the weather on them, in symbols, not blobs.

Clearly your education was either not up to standard or was sucked out with your colonic.

I T V 1 posted:
You know that I think the license fee should be scrapped, however because we "have" to pay, then people have the right to complain. I like the new graphics so far, but the clouds and other things are hard to understand. I knew the BBC would get a bashing for these new graphics, because the British people aint used to them, but we do have to move forward and not live in the past. Ive tried to make my commenta as fair as possible, but if they are I dont know!


New Labour if ever I heard it. What is the obsession with moving forward? There is nothing wrong with the old system so why change it? Whilst this is a pres forum so graphics = good these graphics have just made the weather harder to understand. It is not an advancement and no advancement was needed in the first place apart from maybe a software upgrade from the meterologists's end to make their job easier.
SP
Spencer
I remember when I was taught about isobars, fronts and pressure charts at school, I already knew about it and understood it... thanks to having watched BBC weather forecasts!
AN
Ant
I've never been taught isobars etc in Geography yet, but it isn't rocket science! I figured out what it meant when I was 11!
SP
Sput
Actually Geology is the study of the Earth. Geography is the study of the distribution of people and life across the Earth.
KA
Katherine Founding member
Definition of geography from Answers.com....

Quote:
1 - The study of the earth and its features and of the distribution of life on the earth, including human life and the effects of human activity.
2 - The physical characteristics, especially the surface features, of an area.
3 - A book on geography.
4 - An ordered arrangement of constituent elements: charting a geography of the mind.
PE
Pete Founding member
Sput posted:
Actually Geology is the study of the Earth. Geography is the study of the distribution of people and life across the Earth.


it merges in school. geology is rocks and nowt else.
SP
Sput
Hymagumba posted:
Sput posted:
Actually Geology is the study of the Earth. Geography is the study of the distribution of people and life across the Earth.


it merges in school. geology is rocks and nowt else.


Then you should have called it GCSE/A-Level Geography shouldn't you, you $hit-monkey.
AP
Aphrodite007
Sput posted:
Hymagumba posted:
Sput posted:
Actually Geology is the study of the Earth. Geography is the study of the distribution of people and life across the Earth.


it merges in school. geology is rocks and nowt else.


Then you should have called it GCSE/A-Level Geography shouldn't you, you $hit-monkey.


Bloody hell, calm down. Shocked
DU
Dunedin
I totally agree with dropping isobars and spending more time giving the weather.

But the new graphics are a HUGE step back.

It seems nobody in BBC Weather has actually asked themselves- "what's the benefit of 3D?"

It adds nothing to the forcast, but as has been said many times already means your location is only on the map for a few seconds and if you live north of Newcastle you've got a pretty poor forcast.

And just bringing it back to a presentational level- it looks utterly crap....brown land and monotone blue seas?

Look at the old graphics and the texture of the sea, and the detail in the landmass- all of which as been dropped. It looks like one of those attempts to predict 3D broadcasting done in the 1970s

Just look at the horizon at the top of the picture- they haven't even anti-alised (if you can do such a thing to a line) the globe. It's amateurish, shoddy and technology for the sake of technology.

Trust me on this- there will be massive changes to what you're seeing on the screen, but that can't hide the fact this relaunch has been a massive embarassment for the BBC...personally I wouldn't want to be in charge of BBC Weather.

The sad thing is they're now going to have throw good money after bad (lots of it)......and still end up with an inferior system to that which they've replaced.
TV
TVDragon
Well Derek made us an isobar chart for the first time tonight -- it moved very fast indeed.

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/tvdragon/wt180505.jpg

My analogue reception is pretty average [due to a forest helpfully nearby you see], and this morning's weather map was either all cloudy or all sunny -- but I couldn't tell which [sound was off] since there was no rain or distinction in shadow.

And what is the point of little wind arrows without a number representing their strength?
IT
I T V 1
Hymagumba posted:
jay posted:
Have you seen a Geography syllabus lately? It's all about farming and volcanoes these days! We don't actually learn about places!

And just for the record, it isn't just me in the whole country that doesn't understand what they mean - so don't be so patronising.


what do places have to do with weather? Places come under Travel and Tourism and not Geography, Geography is the science of the earth.

In Scotland this year the very first thing on our course was atmospheric and oceanic circulation and how it runs the weather. In Standard Grade we learned how to predict weather from isobars and the sheets consisted of isonbars and you had to draw the weather on them, in symbols, not blobs.

Clearly your education was either not up to standard or was sucked out with your colonic.

I T V 1 posted:
You know that I think the license fee should be scrapped, however because we "have" to pay, then people have the right to complain. I like the new graphics so far, but the clouds and other things are hard to understand. I knew the BBC would get a bashing for these new graphics, because the British people aint used to them, but we do have to move forward and not live in the past. Ive tried to make my commenta as fair as possible, but if they are I dont know!


New Labour if ever I heard it. What is the obsession with moving forward? There is nothing wrong with the old system so why change it? Whilst this is a pres forum so graphics = good these graphics have just made the weather harder to understand. It is not an advancement and no advancement was needed in the first place apart from maybe a software upgrade from the meterologists's end to make their job easier.


No wonder the country is what it is, with half the people stuck in the past. Its like, oh well I will keep this version of PS, because there is nothing wrong with it instead of upgrading to the much better PlayStation 3, with better and more exciting graphics and features.
IS
Isonstine Founding member
Got to love Eddie Mair who ended BBC 3 News with:

"And a quick look at tomorrow's weather........brown, brown, brown, blue, brown, brown, blue, red"

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