Keith (Southend) wrote:
Norman Lynagh wrote:
In message , Rodney Blackall
writes

Does anyone here know why, when an area of rain is projected to move
across the country on BBC TV presentations, it does so rather like a worm? (The
leading edge moves on leaving the trailing edge in place, then the
trailing edge catches up while the leading edge is stopped.)

I would have expected it to be more difficult to program this effect than
the more realistic whole-body translation.

Morphing between 3-hourly time-steps?

Must admit after a period of months with these graphics, I still don't
like them. At least they do occasionally introduce isobars and fronts
for the dozen or so of us that they obviously think understand them!
Don't they realise they teach this stuff in Schools?

Does it really matter? They don't even know when to come in out othe
rain themselves most of them. They seem to tend towards the Blue Peter
& Play School end of the presenter's spectrum these days.

Whoever or whatever is in charge of the transition must be doing it for
the sake of making cuts. I'm not even sure they are financial ones.

Hopefully if that is so, a flux of meteorologists released from serious
positions may be answering ads for TV presenters in the JobCentres
around places like Birmingham soon. Some financial whizz kid of Aunty
B, might see an opportunity there.

Maybe in decades to come any chosen might serve to redress the balance.
Maybe the independent channels will see an opening and usurp the Beeb.

Don't hold your breath.