On Saturday, 9 March 2013 01:59:42 UTC, Tudor Hughes wrote:
I see Tomas Schaffernaker is back. His latest effort (R4, 5.58

pm) was the usual compendium of chaos, jumping all over the place like

a demented grasshopper and the normal incompetent delivery with pauses

all in the wrong places. Some of it was seriously misleading.

For the BBC the weather forecast is just a nuisance, to be

compressed beyond usefulness and to be got out of the way a quickly as

possible so as to make way for really important stuff such as trailers

and listeners' emails. An additional feature this week has been that

the forecaster has had to provide a local forecast for someone who has

emailed in saying they are getting married/going to a rugby match/

holding a tortoise-polishing competition etc etc. Hey, what fun!

It's quite clear from the forecaster's delivery what he or she thinks

of this nonsense and it eats into the time available for the proper

forecast.

This is weather forecasts as entertainment, something that in

the past would be associated with a down-market TV channel. Radio 4

ought to be ashamed of itself.

The Met Office doesn't give a toss; at least there is no

evidence known to me that they do - they are simply no longer required

to.



Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

Don't totally agree Tudor as the BBC give serious amounts of time to the weather. its just that after that the content is banal at best.