When the wind blows the tree outside your house inside your house then
thats when they'll bother to tell you.

The fact is the presenters shouldn't be forced to learn how best to use
the new overpriced system, they should have already received training
before inflicting it onto us, the customer, the paying public.

When I was incarcerated in UKMO (10 year sentence, but I dug a tunnel
and escaped) IT kit would regularly arrive with the instructions get on
with it, no training nothing, has that happened this time, you decide?

Dave Ludlow wrote:
On Fri, 20 May 2005 13:50:51 +0100, "Will Hand"
wrote:


Then later we had David Braine he did show the paper aeroplanes and mentioned
gales tomorrow, but if he had not mentioned gales the paper aeroplanes would not
have indicated that. I consider this a very serious issue now if potential gales
either do not get mentioned or are not shown properly on a forecast.
How much did the BBC pay for this package? £1 million quid :-O I would have
thought that for that price we could have better graphics for wind than paper
aeroplanes.


And it's not just about gales: I've seen it suggested that winds are
somehow of little interest to Joe Public but I don't think that's
right. Looking outside now, here, the most noticeable thing is how
breezy it is. It's certainly windy enough to make you think twice
about taking a child out for a bike ride and there are many other
activities ("will the grass dry in time for a cut after the rain
stops?") where windspeed is at least as important as, say, amount of
sunshine.


Full marks to the Met Office presenters again though, keeping smiling.


Especially as they are probably still wrestling with the system
intricacies. For example, I'd be loathe to show the wind arrow
diagrams onscreen until I'd found a way to stop them looking silly -
which is how they look to me at the moment. Francis's wind arrows on
Sky News are about 10 times bigger and inspite of having only two or
three wind "streams" over the UK, they give much more useful
information, easy to absorb, than the BBC's wriggling tiddlers.

I'm looking for one or two small improvements every week now, as the
presenters learn how to handle what they, too, must see as problems to
be solved.