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Old May 24th 05, 09:36 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
Peter Hayes Peter Hayes is offline
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Dave Liquorice wrote:

Oh dear they really are struggling with getting towns in the right
place aren't they. Be quick


No need to rush, it's still wrong 12 hours later.

and take a look at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/weather...st/index.shtml

Berwick-upon-Tweed is, in reality, on the east coast to the ESE of
Edinburgh, roughly where the d of tweed is...


Evidently they've moved it, but it's still several miles inland. Last
time I was there it was very much a coastal port.

Currently it's shown as
somewhere near Lanark! Barrow isn't quite right either.


And Edinburgh is now apparantly *in* the Firth of Forth.

Has no one with a map checked the coordinates for towns in the places
overlay?


As always, if they can't get the simple details correct it makes the
rest worthless. Are the temps correct? Are the rainfall blobs in the
correct place?

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Peter