It's happened.
No weather forecast presenter after the 9 pm news on BBC1.
Just a caption and the voice of a rather jolly northern female giving a general forecast for the whole country.
She ended saying she hoped for better weather in the future.
It was like a comedy sketch.

No doubt BBC will be annoyed with MeteoGroup, or other way round?

UKMO must be laughing like a drain of course.

Len
Wembury

Len Wood wrote:

It's happened.
No weather forecast presenter after the 9 pm news on BBC1.
Just a caption and the voice of a rather jolly northern female giving
a general forecast for the whole country. She ended saying she hoped
for better weather in the future. It was like a comedy sketch.

No doubt BBC will be annoyed with MeteoGroup, or other way round?

UKMO must be laughing like a drain of course.

Len
Wembury


I thought the presenters were now employed directly by the BBC.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
https://peakdistrictweather.org
Twitter: @TideswellWeathr

I suspect that there may have been a glitch in the new graphics engine...

Tomasz Schafernaker probably tried to add a fly-through across the UK and the whole think came to grinding halt.

They couldn't wait to ditch the old system so they couldn't go back to that, and even if they could go back it would be a painful humiliation if they did, so they went for the least worst option.


if I'm right, it doesn't bode well for the future.

On Sunday, February 11, 2018 at 7:18:07 AM UTC, Norman Lynagh wrote:
Len Wood wrote:

It's happened.
No weather forecast presenter after the 9 pm news on BBC1.
Just a caption and the voice of a rather jolly northern female giving
a general forecast for the whole country. She ended saying she hoped
for better weather in the future. It was like a comedy sketch.

No doubt BBC will be annoyed with MeteoGroup, or other way round?

UKMO must be laughing like a drain of course.

Len
Wembury


I thought the presenters were now employed directly by the BBC.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
https://peakdistrictweather.org
Twitter: @TideswellWeathr

Yes Norman I think you are right.
But with no graphics I guess they were not prepared to stand in front of a blank screen. When all the aids are removed it is a daunting task to fill the time.

I did not recognise the female voice who was volunteered to at least read something. I think she had a lancashire accent.

Len

wrote in
:

I suspect that there may have been a glitch in the new graphics
engine...

Tomasz Schafernaker probably tried to add a fly-through across the UK
and the whole think came to grinding halt.

They couldn't wait to ditch the old system so they couldn't go back to
that, and even if they could go back it would be a painful humiliation
if they did, so they went for the least worst option.


if I'm right, it doesn't bode well for the future.

I switched to the BBC News Channel and the forecast at virtually the same
time was fine. It might have been recorded but then that option would have
been available on the the other channel; it's a bit odd.

Alan

On 11/02/2018 15:16, Alan Gardiner wrote:
wrote in
:

I suspect that there may have been a glitch in the new graphics
engine...

Tomasz Schafernaker probably tried to add a fly-through across the UK
and the whole think came to grinding halt.

They couldn't wait to ditch the old system so they couldn't go back to
that, and even if they could go back it would be a painful humiliation
if they did, so they went for the least worst option.


if I'm right, it doesn't bode well for the future.

I switched to the BBC News Channel and the forecast at virtually the same
time was fine. It might have been recorded but then that option would have
been available on the the other channel; it's a bit odd.

My immediate thought was that there might have been a f/c on BBC News at
~21:25. Maybe the BBC 1 21:10-21:30 News was slightly delayed?

This was mentioned on last nights Newswatch on BBC News.

Officially the BBC say it was due to human error related
to the earlier than usual Weekend News bulletin.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09rmxtq/newswatch-16022018

On 17/02/2018 04:44, Brian W Lawrence wrote:
This was mentioned on last nights Newswatch on BBC News.

Officially the BBC say it was due to human error related
to the earlier than usual Weekend News bulletin.

Â*Â* https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09rmxtq/newswatch-16022018


So somebody 'forgot' that the news was on earlier than usual and they
didn't have time to prepare the proper forecast??

It looked like something out of the 70s, simply a voice-over type
bulletin like you would get just before closedown. Even the graphic they
did have looked as if it had been hastily put together!

--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl
Snow videos:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QvmL4UWBmHFMKWiwYm_gg

On Saturday, February 17, 2018 at 4:44:57 AM UTC, Brian W Lawrence wrote:
This was mentioned on last nights Newswatch on BBC News.

Officially the BBC say it was due to human error related
to the earlier than usual Weekend News bulletin.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09rmxtq/newswatch-16022018

Thanks Brian. I wondered if the BBC had come up with any explanation.
They appear to need someone to press a button at the right time.
It seems the weather forecast does not go out live?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...watch-16022018
If you want to see a snip of what happened , fast forward to about 9:55 mins.

Len

On 17/02/2018 10:09, Len Wood wrote:
On Saturday, February 17, 2018 at 4:44:57 AM UTC, Brian W Lawrence wrote:
This was mentioned on last nights Newswatch on BBC News.

Officially the BBC say it was due to human error related
to the earlier than usual Weekend News bulletin.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09rmxtq/newswatch-16022018

Thanks Brian. I wondered if the BBC had come up with any explanation.
They appear to need someone to press a button at the right time.
It seems the weather forecast does not go out live?

It's usually live, although overnight (roughly midnight to 06:00) they
replay a recording made late the previous evening.