Indeed it has... and is it just me, or have they just made the rest of the country smaller? It seems like there is an unnecessary amount of France on the map, surely they could have zoomed in a bit more onto the UK?
I preferred it with the tilt, but then I'm in the south, so the size of Scotland didn't affect me.
EDIT: It's only changed on News 24 - weather on the Ten still has the tilt. Definitely prefer the tilt...
Looks like there may be an internal rebellion afoot. The big nobs trying their best to dumb it down, while the foot soldiers try and keep us all enlightened.
Hmm!!
I've noticed that Angie, on BBC Newsline, has taken to adding extra place names to her map
(in a very small font),
and also is back to writing the word
WINDY
in large letters over the Irish Sea.
The quality of the animation on Angie's forecasts is terrible compared the network forecast.
I suspect the real reason for not changing the colour of land on the new maps back to green... is not because the BBC Weather Centre thinks it works much better in sludge... but because the colour of land is not one of the user definable options of the software. I would love them to prove me wrong.
Indeed it has... and is it just me, or have they just made the rest of the country smaller? It seems like there is an unnecessary amount of France on the map, surely they could have zoomed in a bit more onto the UK?
I preferred it with the tilt, but then I'm in the south, so the size of Scotland didn't affect me.
EDIT: It's only changed on News 24 - weather on the Ten still has the tilt. Definitely prefer the tilt...
Living in Northern Ireland, I think the new reduced tilt is an improvement. I think the problem with zooming any further in is that the Channel Islands would disappear beneath the Day indicator - if it were long enough... e.g. "Wednesday".
It still doesn't look right. I'm sorry, but how are people in the far north Scotland supposed to see their weather close up, like the south of England seems to get?
There's a ridiculous amount of the continent being shown, when there's no need for it. They could zoom into the map a lot better than what their 'rethink' has come up with.
Not a fan of the new tilt at all. Makes everything as small as it was before.
I really think it would be more productive if the BBC 'boxed' the Channel Islands and Shetland/Orkney, so that they could zoom in a little closer. It is a real pain in the arse having to put them on the main map. It is a disadvantage to about 59 million people, in favour of about 2000 or so who live on those islands.
I'm not 100% whether people on the Channel Islands actually pay a TV licence anyway.
I agree with cat, it's that way on my road atlas too. The tilt is still considerable and there is far too much france on the map. Why can't they just have a map like the old one?
The Corbster was listed on the webpage as doing BBC1 afternoon and evening. He did indeed do the Six, but why then did he fail to appear on the Ten? Instead we got one of those unmemorable clones Bett or Taylor...
To be honest I have found that before, the weather for the morning or afternoon was on for a good ten seconds or so meaning that you had enough time to check what part of the day it was and could see what the weather was in your area. Now I find that the times move through so quickly I'm checking to see whether or not we're in the morning, afternoon etc. by which time I've missed the weather for that time because its moved on again. I think it ought to be slowed down a bit more.
The only other problem with it is that if you have a portable television you can't tell the difference in shades on the map meaning all I can tell on my portable television is whether or not it is raining.
The lack of symbols - which also stop local forecasters adding their own interpretation (I'm wondering if this is a subtext - as all the new graphics are generated automatically - the previous cloud/rain/sun symbols were placed manually...) of the national data.
Apparently some regional forecasters are now openly contradicting the automatic graphics - because their local knowledge and experience tells them the forecast on the graphics is plain wrong for their region...
I think that's the crucial bit - *everything* seems to be automatically generated except the explantory captions at the start (large font in big white rectangle) and possibly the 5-day summary at the end).
Automatically generated maps are not necessarily better.
For example - the overcomplicated wind arrow 'grid' is much harder to understand than the old style diagrams.
The pressure chart (which we get without fail in every southeast forecast now) is poor. The animated isobars are fine, but they are automatically adding "HIGH" and "LOW" text constantly disappears and reappears during the course of an animation. I think it should be part of the software that you can configure a minimum period of time graphics should be onscreen, and if captions are to move by less than a certain number of pixels, they should stay in the same place, or 'glide' in the same way the lines do.