The Weather Forecast Thread

i heard that they are going to change the titles to "warmer colours" because the current ones are a bit cold.

Here comes orange again then.....

I think it just shows how up-its-own-arse the show has got now.

It's still very good, but it's got to the point now when it's featuring its own bloody reports in its title sequence. Bit pathetic, if you ask me.

Newsnight is more concerned about the way it presents the news - silly little stories by Michael Crick in his helicopter, that really have absolutely no relevance to the election campaign - than the actual news it presents.

As someone points out on the BBC website - why not just have the business AND the weather and a little less of Paxman acting like a jerk. If anyone else were that awkward in their job, they'd be out. His superiority complex really gets on my nerves sometimes.

I've noticed that not one person has mentioned that there's too much sport. We get more sport a day than weather and weather affects everyone, a premership football team affects its 30,000 - 60,000 supporters. All though one could take this argument and say that business might not affect as many people as sport does.

I think it's a good idea including the weather on Newsnight but I hate those fly over maps and that small summary table (6 o' clock) with the temperatures as there's never enough time to check your area before it's disappeared and in that table my nearest place is in Leeds - a 45 minute drive away!

Whilst on the subject of Newsnight, does it still come from the Breakfast studio?

Well you're actually both wrong to an extent.

The BBC Weather department IS the Met Office! Ever since the 60s (I believe) the Met Office has had a department at the BBC. They are full time forecasters who also happen to present as part of their jobs (although there are some that do this as their main job). And, as is often quoted, the weather forecasts are the cheapest programmes to produce.

I'm also shocked that you find the BBC Weather website 'ridiculous and unnecessary'. I'm a physicist and am already appalled at the lack of decent scientific programming on the BBC and the weather website is a fantastic public service - it educates and informs. If you want to know if it's sunny or rainy then download one of those horrid weather things you can put on your start menu. If you want to the difference between cumulonimbus and stratus for instance then the BBC is for you!

I used to love the short ~10 min weather programmes that used to be broadcast on BBC One in which the meteorologists were actually able to explain in more depth about the physics of weather. God I'm sad!

James

So who would write these forecasts then? If they were to sack all the Met Office forecasters there would be no weather reports as there;s no-one left to forecast the weather!

Don't underestimate the attraction of weather bulletins - they are hugely popular. Research into local news has discovered that the audience drops off by a huge amount after their weather forecast.... hence why most regions now put their weather bulletins at the end of the programme rather than in the middle

Blob who have you heard this from? why after the weather relaunch?

Hmm ... look what came into my posession today. It's ... a BBC Weather fridge magnet. eBay, anyone?

Bruce, Bruce Im disappointed. Shamlessly selling something of our national.....How much?

Out of interest, The tories now seem hell bent on privatising the Met Office....

On the contentious Newsnight weather issue, the threatened snap election has been called. Michael Fish has been called out of retirement to champion the cause for Weather, whilst Lord Lamont will be making the case for Markets.

Full details (including how to vote) here.

Haha ... It might be of interest to certain members. It might also just stay on my fridge. Who knows. Tempt me.

Edit: In fact, I've decided, it's going on my fridge. It just looks too good there.

A couple of years ago Newsnight had a weather forecast at the end of the programme. So why can't the BBC do both again?