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Old June 10th 14, 05:41 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
David Allan[_2_] David Allan[_2_] is offline
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Sad to see they have been tinkering about yet again, and I'm not sure it is for the better. The Rainfall Radar is probably the most useful page for me, being able to see exactly where the rain is falling and not where it is being predicted to fall. Frequent updates allow you to track precipitation. At first, I thought they'd ditched it, but I eventually located it. I sometimes feel that navigating the Met Office website is a bit like some computer game where you are trying to find hidden prizes!

Have they ditched the visible/IR satellite images? This is another useful page that I'd be sad to see disappear.

While in mid-rant... what about the Met Office website tablet/android edition? The satellite image there (which doesn't seem to be a true satellite image) shows white clouds against a Google map with a white background!!! Which numpty came up with that? Now, that really is useless!

You have to wonder what sort of brief is given to those paid to design the website and apps. More to the point, I assume the final result gets shown to someone before final approval. That being the case, what did they think of the Android app that shows white clouds against a white background on the so-called satellite image? Emperor's new clothes springs to mind!

Regards... David Allan.