"Darren Prescott" wrote in message
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"Phil Layton" wrote in message ...
http://entertainment.timesonline.co....cle6991064.ece
Oh no - they're the bunch of muppets who came up with the derisible
Weatherscape XT, the 1998-era graphics engine that powers the BBC's "turd
brown" forecasts. Words cannot express how much I loathe that graphics
package, which compared to the old "Weather 2000" symbol maps is a world
away. Just looking at the low-res, ill-defined mush after 36 hours makes
the whole thing a mockery.

The BBC forked out large amounts of money for that waste-of-space graphics
system and thus (having been a soft target) I'm not surprised the owners
of that system are pushing for even more of the Beeb's money.

Sometimes the new graphics are useful on the local regional forecasts. The
other week I happened to see a forecast (as I don't normally watch) and it
was a max. temperature chart and it was showing something like 6 in Exeter
and 7 in Plymouth and something else in Barnstaple (I think it was 5 or 6)
which was not representative of Dartmoor, but the shaded colours that went
with the map were pale blue/green over Dartmoor and it was indeed circa +2
in Haytor. So they can be useful at a regional level.

Will
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