BBC Weather Live Video- How?

When BBC weather (usually Breakfast) show images of a city, is this a live picture? (It maybe says Live now I think about it).

Things like say the Aberdeen image, how does this get routed to London. I would have thought that like a normal booth style interview you'd need to book this and probably route BBC Aberdeen via BBC Glasgow. But presumably that would be too much hassle for a quick live weather shot. Or does none of this work like that anymore.

So how does it work ? Are lots of weather cams available on some BBC network covering all studio centres. Or are they lower bandwidth.

Oh and are these weather cams available off the BBC website somewhere?

Yes

I think it is aperminent link, they used to use them on all the N24 weather updates. You can get to them through the webcam section through www.bbc.co.uk/webcams i believe!!

The link is interesting but, are these the same ones? For example, the Aberdeen one isn't there and these look like true webcams and the BBC images look to be full motion live (from looking at cars and people etc moving around).

They are live. Not sure how the aberdeen one works - it will be there for a reason. For example CBBC use the Radio1 Webcams to do the live link to the Charts on a Sunday. They're proper video cams and I suspect some software just takes one frame every 10mins or something.

They could be Met Office cams? Do the met office not have offices in Key cities like Aberdeen to record pics and temps etc?

Not immensly complicated.

But the weather cams shown on TV seem to be full motion not frame grabs. So presumably the work differently. Or am I mistaken.

No No. Webcams do motion video - it's the software generally which takes the frame and uses that. If you've got a webcam you'll see it's most likely coming through the WDM or something like that which handles video or something in the likes of Windows.

As I said in my previous post CBBC hook up to the radio1 webcam on the chart show and it shows actual "motion video"

Certainly the Leeds one is a proper full frame camera on the Woodhouse Lane roof, not a 320x240 pixel golf ball on top of the monitor affair

Likewise with the Glasgow one - it's situated on the top of the Moat House Hotel, down by the Clyde. It's also used as the backdrop to Reporting Scotland at 6.30.

The view isn't quite as good as it used to be - they've gone and built a big block of flats right in front of the camera.

I think BBC Manchester has two cameras like these, one pointing at Oxford Street and the other one pointing at a clock saying 'Palace' on it, I don't know what is in the building but it is a brief walk from the BBC. Though that is the one they always use.

It's the Palace Hotel on Oxford Road.