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Old May 24th 12, 03:52 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
Tudor Hughes Tudor Hughes is offline
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Default Met Office web site ... forcing different default on map display

On May 23, 2:32*pm, Dave Ludlow
wrote:
On Tue, 22 May 2012 21:20:12 +0100, Phil Layton
wrote:





On 22/05/2012 21:02, Dave Ludlow wrote:


And the hourly obs map and links to individual stations are an hour
behind the old site - this is utter rubbish.


So it's back to the old site for me and when they pull it, I will be
off somewhere else.


Dave
Fareham


I'm afraid Dave, we are not a 'key stakeholder', just a minor interest group


From Met O


'Consultation


Consultation has been carried out over the past 12 months with key
stakeholders across all areas of our business to identify the
information you need and expect to find when visiting our website. We
have incorporated the main findings from this consultation for example
extending three-hourly forecasts out to five days ahead.'


Well I have fired off my feedback, they seem to be having a lot of
that at the moment and I bet it's not generally positive! First line
of their acknowledgement reads:

"At the moment we are experiencing high volumes of emails, so it may
take us a little longer than usual to reply."


I don't expect a response any time soon.

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Dave
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I got a reply. It started:-

"Dear Tudor,

Thank you for your email in connection with Met Office website
Rainfall Radar. I will raise this with our Web Tean for their
appreisal."

One typo and one spelling mistake. The rest of the reply (about
90%) simply refers me to various links, including the dreadful page
itself and the Met Office's stated reasons for change.
Surely this useless irritating site cannot be allowed to
continue? It's like marketing a new car with a 3-speed crash
gearbox.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.