Sad to see they have been tinkering about yet again, and I'm not sure it is for the better. The Rainfall Radar is probably the most useful page for me, being able to see exactly where the rain is falling and not where it is being predicted to fall. Frequent updates allow you to track precipitation. At first, I thought they'd ditched it, but I eventually located it. I sometimes feel that navigating the Met Office website is a bit like some computer game where you are trying to find hidden prizes!

Have they ditched the visible/IR satellite images? This is another useful page that I'd be sad to see disappear.

While in mid-rant... what about the Met Office website tablet/android edition? The satellite image there (which doesn't seem to be a true satellite image) shows white clouds against a Google map with a white background!!! Which numpty came up with that? Now, that really is useless!

You have to wonder what sort of brief is given to those paid to design the website and apps. More to the point, I assume the final result gets shown to someone before final approval. That being the case, what did they think of the Android app that shows white clouds against a white background on the so-called satellite image? Emperor's new clothes springs to mind!

Regards... David Allan.

"David Allan" wrote in message
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Sad to see they have been tinkering about yet again, and I'm not sure it is
for the better. The Rainfall Radar is probably the most useful page for me,
being able to see exactly where the rain is falling and not where it is
being predicted to fall. Frequent updates allow you to track precipitation.
At first, I thought they'd ditched it, but I eventually located it. I
sometimes feel that navigating the Met Office website is a bit like some
computer game where you are trying to find hidden prizes!

Have they ditched the visible/IR satellite images? This is another useful
page that I'd be sad to see disappear.

While in mid-rant... what about the Met Office website tablet/android
edition? The satellite image there (which doesn't seem to be a true
satellite image) shows white clouds against a Google map with a white
background!!! Which numpty came up with that? Now, that really is useless!

You have to wonder what sort of brief is given to those paid to design the
website and apps. More to the point, I assume the final result gets shown to
someone before final approval. That being the case, what did they think of
the Android app that shows white clouds against a white background on the
so-called satellite image? Emperor's new clothes springs to mind!

Regards... David Allan.
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http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/satpics/latest_IR.html
I still use this for satellite imagery

Oh yes it was extensively tested (or so it is claimed). The developers are
not meteorologists, that is the main problem. Nothing to do with the
programmers who are very very good, but it is a lot to do with the senior
governance and leadership of the Met Office.

I'm bombarding them with e-mails at present pointing out the multiple issues

Everyone has to be answered :-)

Will
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http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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A former Director was recommended reading a bool called "If it ain't broke -
break it!".
Looks as if they've now accepted it's recomendations.
Tony


"Will Hand" wrote in message
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"David Allan" wrote in message
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Sad to see they have been tinkering about yet again, and I'm not sure it
is for the better. The Rainfall Radar is probably the most useful page for
me, being able to see exactly where the rain is falling and not where it
is being predicted to fall. Frequent updates allow you to track
precipitation. At first, I thought they'd ditched it, but I eventually
located it. I sometimes feel that navigating the Met Office website is a
bit like some computer game where you are trying to find hidden prizes!

Have they ditched the visible/IR satellite images? This is another useful
page that I'd be sad to see disappear.

While in mid-rant... what about the Met Office website tablet/android
edition? The satellite image there (which doesn't seem to be a true
satellite image) shows white clouds against a Google map with a white
background!!! Which numpty came up with that? Now, that really is useless!

You have to wonder what sort of brief is given to those paid to design the
website and apps. More to the point, I assume the final result gets shown
to someone before final approval. That being the case, what did they think
of the Android app that shows white clouds against a white background on
the so-called satellite image? Emperor's new clothes springs to mind!

Regards... David Allan.
===============================

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/satpics/latest_IR.html
I still use this for satellite imagery

Oh yes it was extensively tested (or so it is claimed). The developers are
not meteorologists, that is the main problem. Nothing to do with the
programmers who are very very good, but it is a lot to do with the senior
governance and leadership of the Met Office.

I'm bombarding them with e-mails at present pointing out the multiple
issues

Everyone has to be answered :-)

Will
--
http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
---------------------------------------------

On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 18:59:56 UTC+1, wrote:


Oh yes it was extensively tested (or so it is claimed). The developers are
not meteorologists, that is the main problem. Nothing to do with the
programmers who are very very good, but it is a lot to do with the senior
governance and leadership of the Met Office.

If it is anything like what some US govenrment agencies do, it is all crapware from Adobe that is causing the problems. What do error pages look like?

I only go there for the North Atlantic charts. I recently ticked all the boxes for newsletters form their site. I couldn't be arsed going back to unsubscribe. I just hit the spam button and Gmail learned they are not worth opening.

Since they stopped archiving the tropical storms I lost interest in them. Besides, I have US websites read to do the job when they finally JavaScript (or whatever they use) themselves out of the mainstream.

I'm bombarding them with e-mails at present pointing out the multiple issues


Everyone has to be answered.

Yes but with the same standard form it is no problem for some east European or Asian temp worker to get shivved with your correspondence. If it is an Adobe web package you were lucky to be able to grab the complaints department's capcha.

Hils wrote:
On 2014-06-10 17:41, David Allan wrote:
While in mid-rant... what about the Met Office website tablet/android
edition? The satellite image there (which doesn't seem to be a true
satellite image) shows white clouds against a Google map with a white
background!!! Which numpty came up with that? Now, that really is
useless!

After getting caught in an unforecast band of rain while on foot a long
way from home, I wrote a script which fetches the latest high-res
satellite picture from Dundee University, crops it around the UK and
eastern Atlantic, labels it, and sets it as a desktop image.

Example desktop:

https://anonfiles.com/file/598fa9b89...8ee8e1a33ff99b
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Very nice, well done.