"Jonathan Stott" wrote in message
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They are listening - I've seen plenty more synoptic charts of late and
wind speed arrows have made a return.

One problem I noticed last week when I was watching the world forecasts on
BBC World - if there's a *lot* of rain (as there was when showing the
monsoons over India and Bangladesh), the animation really starts the chug!

Agree they seem to be listening after initial arrogance. John Hammond's
countryfile forecast was very good on Sunday and included synoptic runs and
many of the charts now include wind speed (in the old style arrows). The
whole thing is still not as clear and unambiguous as before though. I think
they must throw away much of the Metservice stuff and start again. I will be
interesting to see how UK-wide cloudy days, fog, snow, sleet etc are
represented. We already know they have nothing to indicate the difference
between heavy rain and thunderstorm activity.

Did they ever get negative feedback relating to the old graphics?

David