On 26 Nov, 19:59, "Col" wrote:
"Tudor Hughes" wrote in message

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On Nov 26, 11:38 am, "Roger Smith" wrote:

Isn't she awful! We are in for a blustery old day today and a chilly old
start tomorrow (BBC News 24 at 11.30).

I don't think I took in what she said about the actual weather.

I think we need a few articulate old presenters on TV if real forecasters
are too expensive.

Roger
* * *Yes, I'm getting into a right old state about it as I head
through the afternoon period. *I get all my BBC forecasts from Radio 4
and radio presentation is in some ways more difficult than TV,
something you would have thought the BBC would have recognised.

* * *Laura Tobyn doesn't seem engaged with the subject, somehow, andsounds a bit like a robot, or a dentist's receptionist (ooh, snobby
old git). *Having said that, she is better than Tomas Schaffernacker
(spelling?) who still manages to waffle and confuse, despite the new
format. *He sounds nervous and frankly a bit wet. *Neither should be
doing this job - they are simply unsuitable. *The best by far is Peter

Gibbs who sounds as if he is delivering information about something he

really knows about and wants us to understand.

We've not seen much of Desperate Dan Corbett recently.
Perhaps that's just as well.
I'm sure the good people of Cumbria didn't want to be told
that now might be a good time to dig the 'wet weather gear'
out of the wardrobe......
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

The silly girlies on Sky are equally bad, unfortunately. We abandoned
the BBC Breakfast programme sometime ago in favour of Sky, which is
far from perfect, what with the inane ads, but it is nowhere near as
dumbed down as the Blue Peter equivalent on the BBC. As well as being
a bit daft, the ladies on Sky have to do a lot of walking about,
because their background map appears to be huge.

The French forecasts we get on France 2 are generally pretty good, but
often a bit rushed because everything's running late.

CK