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CH
chris
james posted:
m_in_m posted:
LONDON posted:
Good to see the old BBC weather symbols live on and look like they will for the forseeable future.


They also live on through the upcoming re-launch of the BBC Weather site: beta.bbc.co.uk/weather/


I am a huge fan of the symbols and hope one day they may come back to the TV output.


I can't see that happening personally. Watch ITV Weather with their symbols now looks very dated. The BBC's current system in my opinion is the best out there - clear, understandable and can show a lot of detail.
IS
Inspector Sands
chris posted:
I can't see that happening personally. Watch ITV Weather with their symbols now looks very dated. The BBC's current system in my opinion is the best out there - clear, understandable and can show a lot of detail.

Indeed, a symbol can't give as much information as the shading can, one cloud for a large area is too vague
CH
chris
Inspector Sands posted:
chris posted:
I can't see that happening personally. Watch ITV Weather with their symbols now looks very dated. The BBC's current system in my opinion is the best out there - clear, understandable and can show a lot of detail.

Indeed, a symbol can't give as much information as the shading can, one cloud for a large area is too vague


Although, after just watching a BBC Weather forecast just then, I realised the symbols could be brought back for the city summaries? In my opinion, the symbols are a clearer way of telling people it's sunny than that little picture of a blue sky.

But anyway, this is turning into The Weather Thread! Laughing
AN
Andrew Founding member
Inspector Sands posted:
chris posted:
I can't see that happening personally. Watch ITV Weather with their symbols now looks very dated. The BBC's current system in my opinion is the best out there - clear, understandable and can show a lot of detail.

Indeed, a symbol can't give as much information as the shading can, one cloud for a large area is too vague


Then again the shading is too precise, especially when trying to depict showers/patchy cloud.

10 days later

WO
Worzel
http://www.simonkennedy.net/blog/tag/bbc-new-broadcasting-house

Image 12 looks like the inside of the studio which is supposed to be for the news channel on the ground floor.

However in the image its listed as an 'Editing Room'.
GE
thegeek Founding member
I think it's just miscaptioned. Wouldn't worry about it.
MO
Moz
More recent pics courtesy of Flickr...

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Those strange things with weather symbols seem to be everywhere. Someone said they were coffee machines but why have weather symbols on them!!?
DE
deejay
If they're anything like the Media Centre and Broadcast Centre at White City they'll be "Hubs" - areas where fridges, coffee machines, dishwashers, printer/photocopiers are.
BA
baa
So why weather symbols? Seems an odd choice unless there's to be a weather department nearby which'd make the motif seem less like a random occurrence.
JO
Joe
baa posted:
So why weather symbols? Seems an odd choice unless there's to be a weather department nearby which'd make the motif seem less like a random occurrence.


Why not? A nice design feature, surely? It's closely linked with the BBC and news broadcasts. There doesn't always have to be some literal meaning to everything.
BA
baa
Joe posted:
baa posted:
So why weather symbols? Seems an odd choice unless there's to be a weather department nearby which'd make the motif seem less like a random occurrence.


Why not? A nice design feature, surely? It's closely linked with the BBC and news broadcasts. There doesn't always have to be some literal meaning to everything.


Of course not and it's a nice design feature. Figured someone could answer a common question but I'm fine with it if it's merely because the symbols look nice and have a link to BBC News.
GE
thegeek Founding member
baa posted:
So why weather symbols? Seems an odd choice unless there's to be a weather department nearby which'd make the motif seem less like a random occurrence.


Having been along to a BH open day today*, and had a chat with one of the project people, we reckon it might be because British people love talking about the weather, and where better to do that than around the watercoolers.


* BBC people - check Gateway for the times this week you can pop in and have a nosey around level 7

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