BBC Weather, does the Midlands exist?
David Buttery wrote:
Simon wrote in
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Been meaning to mention this for a while. Just what is it about the BBC
weather forecasters that makes them either ignore the Midlands totally,
or only mention it as an aside?
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Isn't it annoying? It's even worse on the (seemingly increasing number of)
occasions when they can't even be bothered to show a proper temperature
map, and just do that "league table" thing. Quite often this consists of
the figures for the four capital cities - London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and
Belfast - *all* of which are seaports and *none* of which are much use if
you live in, say, Stoke!
Even worse is when they zoom and show 2 or 3 temperature numbers on the screen.
How about showing the difference between the coastal/mountain and inland temperatures
by adding a few more numbers? Or aren't these numbers that accurate - I presume
they are interpolated from the nearest gridpoints cf ceefax et al.?
Roger
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