"Will Hand" wrote in message
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20/5/05

Just watched the 1330 national forecast right through. It has been quite
windy
this morning here in the SW and I was wondering if it would die down this
afternoon (I know really but you see what I mean !).
Not one mention of wind throughout the entire forecast, the only clue was
the
mention of blustery showers. Come on BBC don't be shy :-)
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.

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

Will.
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I have a feeling that the package is not the problem. The problem is that
someone has decided to dumb down the forecast (cue patronising comment about
how the public does not inderstand synoptic charts) and the current
forecasts are the result with all of the defects that has been pointed out
so clearly by others.

Alan