On 17 May 2005 17:36:13 -0700, "Tudor Hughes"
wrote:

Just watched 'em - they're as bad as everyone says. In fact I'd
say idiotic. They seem to have gone for the 8-12 age range except that
any earnest young kid of that age would learn nothing about the weather
whatsoever from this Disneyfication of the forecasts.
What's wrong with a map, for goodness' sake? How can a perspective
3D presentation help? All areas outside the immediate UK are excluded
so how can the weather be put in any context and how can this possibly
help the public understanding of weather forecasts?
The BBC airheads (and I don't mean weather enthusiasts) ought to be
ashamed of themselves for this cretinous nonsense and should try and
grow up. It is pure technological gimmickry for its own sake. It adds
nothing and subtracts quite a lot.

I've just watched it again, too and my thoughts are the same as yours:
it's stupidity personnified.

I don't like the colour scheme, 3D as implemented, lack of pressure
and frontal information, narrow focus on the UK, perspective used
(poor Scotland!), imprecise and misleading cloud and rainfall
indicators, zooming around (which adds nothing to the initial
stationary image of the UK)... I could go on. In fact, I cannot think
of ONE improvement over the previous system - compared to a dozen
poorer aspects. And the timestamps on the weather "movies" are
impossible to read whilst studying the actual weather on the maps.

There is now no advantage in watching BBC TV weather forecasts
compared to ITV or any other channel so in future, I won't bother and
I shall be writing to the BBC to tell them so. Although I haven't
watched Sky Weather for some time, I guess that's now the best of the
lot. Francis, here I come!

--
Dave