On Jan 9, 11:30*pm, haaark wrote:
On Jan 9, 11:10*pm, Western Sky wrote:





he got shafted well and truly.

not a mention anywhere on news prior.

20yrs and you sign yourself off like that.

well done bbc and met office. another great f*ck up decision.

On 09/01/2011 11:00 PM, Alan Greig wrote:

Just saw it. Well said Rob.

On 09/01/2011 22:57, Andy M. wrote:
On Jan 9, 7:46 pm, Western wrote:
http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/678...t-shift-is-ton...

damn shame

Shame be damned this IS the BBC we are talking about.
Did you know Terry Nation devised Dr Who as an educational programme.
That idea lasted all of 5 minutes.

end of an era - just watched the final presentation

Now that he's gone and BBC weather presentation is pretty well
information-free, can we please bring on the topless
weatherpresenterettes?

Ooh yes. In the rain. Aw, mamma....!

It will be a major sexuss, as at the moment sending them out in the
rain, fully clothed and sometimes with a brolly just doesn't make
sense.

Or perhaps this is what the management was intending all along?
(If so, I take it all back.
Nice ones. (Please.))

Hang on, what's the definition of a tit?
A professor of Climatology?

Ooh. Perish the thought.
I can't even contemplate it. Thank god.

I'm going now. I don't want to succeed in getting a vision.

On Jan 11, 9:25*am, Richard Dixon wrote:
On Jan 11, 12:31*am, Alan Greig wrote:

I have been listening to Rob for some time. A Cloudy Language features
the words of several weather forecasters and was originally inspired by
ITV presenter Si n Lloyd's pronouncement that "Tomorrow we'll be
speaking mainly a cloudy language." But Rob has always been the master.

He was idiosyncratic and despite slowly morphing into a cross between
a badger and Prince Charles, really should be considered to continue.
Not quite sure how team-related skills are correlated with ability to
present a forecast per comments above. Bill Giles was apparently a
nasty piece of work as a manager of the team and still turned out a
good forecast.

If I wanted to keep, say, 5 forecasters it would probably be McElwee,
Gibbs, Avery, Betts and Willetts - in no particular order (although I
think Peter Gibbs is the best of the lot).

Richard

Whatever happened to David Braine and John Hammond? - both turned out
to be OK presenters after insignificant debuts - though admittedly not
in the same league as Peter Gibbs

On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:00:16 -0800 (PST), Scott W wrote:

On Jan 11, 9:25*am, Richard Dixon wrote:
On Jan 11, 12:31*am, Alan Greig wrote:

I have been listening to Rob for some time. A Cloudy Language features
the words of several weather forecasters and was originally inspired by
ITV presenter Si n Lloyd's pronouncement that "Tomorrow we'll be
speaking mainly a cloudy language." But Rob has always been the master.

He was idiosyncratic and despite slowly morphing into a cross between
a badger and Prince Charles, really should be considered to continue.
Not quite sure how team-related skills are correlated with ability to
present a forecast per comments above. Bill Giles was apparently a
nasty piece of work as a manager of the team and still turned out a
good forecast.

If I wanted to keep, say, 5 forecasters it would probably be McElwee,
Gibbs, Avery, Betts and Willetts - in no particular order (although I
think Peter Gibbs is the best of the lot).

Richard

Whatever happened to David Braine and John Hammond? - both turned out
to be OK presenters after insignificant debuts - though admittedly not
in the same league as Peter Gibbs

David Braine regularly presents the weather on BBC South West from Plymouth
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On 2011-01-11 01:01:25 +0000, Joe Egginton said:

Unlike the new "weather forcaster" on BBC midlands today called Des
Colman, who looks like he'll be rapping the weather forecast before too
long.

He's moved over from East Midlands Today or whatever it is called.

Simon

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