.... not sure how others are getting on with this: I'm trying to
persevere with it but there are irritations .... but also work-arounds:-

One of which is this. If you use the 'Map' display to display, say,
rainfall, then decide to look at the visual (satellite) data, THEN
decide to refresh using either CTRLR or the browser drop-down menu,
then the display will _default_ back to the first field you used ...
thus in this case, I would have in the url bar at the top ....

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/w...p&map=Rainfall

[note the last element]

If you now display the visual image, THEN CHANGE THE LAST ELEMENT in the
url string to replace 'Rainfall' with 'VIS', now any refresh action
should display the latest visual image.

You can obviously save the url (or any other - play around with the
display to find the other string endings) to a bookmark or as I do, to a
local 'quick-start' file which I use as my home page.

It's worth trying this as the data are very high quality - just clunky
to manage!

Martin.



--
West Moors / East Dorset
Lat: 50deg 49.25'N, Long: 01deg 53.05'W
Height (amsl): 17 m (56 feet)
COL category: C1 overall

On 12/05/2012 10:46, Martin Rowley wrote:
... not sure how others are getting on with this: I'm trying to
persevere with it but there are irritations .... but also work-arounds:-

One of which is this. If you use the 'Map' display to display, say,
rainfall, then decide to look at the visual (satellite) data, THEN
decide to refresh using either CTRLR or the browser drop-down menu,
then the display will _default_ back to the first field you used ...
thus in this case, I would have in the url bar at the top ....

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/w...p&map=Rainfall


[note the last element]

If you now display the visual image, THEN CHANGE THE LAST ELEMENT in the
url string to replace 'Rainfall' with 'VIS', now any refresh action
should display the latest visual image.

You can obviously save the url (or any other - play around with the
display to find the other string endings) to a bookmark or as I do, to a
local 'quick-start' file which I use as my home page.

It's worth trying this as the data are very high quality - just clunky
to manage!

Martin.



Thanks Martin. I had a go, but still prefer Sat24.com and raintoday.com
as my preferred source!

--
Phil
Guildford

On 12/05/2012 11:45, Phil Layton wrote:
On 12/05/2012 10:46, Martin Rowley wrote:
... not sure how others are getting on with this: I'm trying to
persevere with it but there are irritations .... but also work-arounds:-
snip

Thanks Martin. I had a go, but still prefer Sat24.com and raintoday.com
as my preferred source!

.... I entirely agree Phil! I'm trying to give the breakfast served up by
the dog the best of chances, but it's hard going; like you, I use other
sites for the most part - the Met Office site has virtually dropped off
my 'operational' list.

Martin.


--
Martin Rowley
West Moors/East Dorset UK

On May 12, 12:02*pm, Martin Rowley wrote:
On 12/05/2012 11:45, Phil Layton wrote: On 12/05/2012 10:46, Martin Rowley wrote:
... not sure how others are getting on with this: I'm trying to
persevere with it but there are irritations .... but also work-arounds:-
snip

Thanks Martin. I had a go, but still prefer Sat24.com and raintoday.com
as my preferred source!

... I entirely agree Phil! I'm trying to give the breakfast served up by
the dog the best of chances, but it's hard going; like you, I use other
sites for the most part - the Met Office site has virtually dropped off
my 'operational' list.

Martin.

--
Martin Rowley
West Moors/East Dorset UK

Surely the breakfast is served up *for* the dog, not by it.
Clearly the site has done for your brain and I'm going to make
absolutely certain that it doesn't do the same for mine. Your
diligence is commendable but why on earth should I have to faff around
in this manner for something that is inferior to the original in the
first place? (3 hr vs 6). I only use the Met Office site for the
rainfall radar and will continue to use the old site until they pull
it, then I'll be off elsewhere. Well done, Met Office - your self-
absorption knows no bounds.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

On 13/05/2012 01:08, Tudor Hughes wrote:

Surely the breakfast is served up *for* the dog, not by it.
Clearly the site has done for your brain and I'm going to make
absolutely certain that it doesn't do the same for mine. Your
diligence is commendable but why on earth should I have to faff around
in this manner for something that is inferior to the original in the
first place? (3 hr vs 6). I only use the Met Office site for the
rainfall radar and will continue to use the old site until they pull
it, then I'll be off elsewhere. Well done, Met Office - your self-
absorption knows no bounds.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.


.... LOL! (And I *think* that means 'Laugh out loud' - though the PM
thinks it means something else).

It shows a difference in experience and path through life Tudor. I've
always thought that a 'dogs breakfast' was the result of feeding the
aforesaid doggy something that didn't agree with it ... then it promptly
presented it on the living room carpet! Hence 'serving up' a dogs
breakfast. When we had a dog, many years ago, it ate what we ate - and
had its breakfast first! No 'mess' either before or afterwards!

Otherwise, I agree with the above: and for information, I happen to know
that the MO web team are patting themselves on the back all round at the
jolly good job they've done .... so it must be our fault ....
- silly us.

Martin.


--
West Moors / East Dorset
Lat: 50deg 49.25'N, Long: 01deg 53.05'W
Height (amsl): 17 m (56 feet)
COL category: C1 overall

On May 15, 8:58*am, Martin Rowley
wrote:
On 13/05/2012 01:08, Tudor Hughes wrote:



* * * Surely the breakfast is served up *for* the dog, not by it.
Clearly the site has done for your brain and I'm going to make
absolutely certain that it doesn't do the same for mine. *Your
diligence is commendable but why on earth should I have to faff around
in this manner for something that is inferior to the original in the
first place? (3 hr vs 6). *I only use the Met Office site for the
rainfall radar and will continue to use the old site until they pull
it, then I'll be off elsewhere. *Well done, Met Office - your self-
absorption knows no bounds.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

... LOL! (And I *think* that means 'Laugh out loud' - though the PM
thinks it means something else).

It shows a difference in experience and path through life Tudor. I've
always thought that a 'dogs breakfast' was the result of feeding the
aforesaid doggy something that didn't agree with it ... then it promptly
presented it on the living room carpet! Hence 'serving up' a dogs
breakfast. When we had a dog, many years ago, it ate what we ate - and
had its breakfast first! No 'mess' either before or afterwards!

Otherwise, I agree with the above: and for information, I happen to know
that the MO web team are patting themselves on the back all round at the
jolly good job they've done .... so it must be our fault ....
* - silly us.

Martin.

--
West Moors / East Dorset
Lat: 50deg 49.25'N, Long: 01deg 53.05'W
Height (amsl): 17 m (56 feet)
COL category: C1 overall

I have a feeling we here on usw are not viewed by UKMO as the target
audience for their website.
We know too much and are not Jo Public.
With an above average interest in the weather we are just considered
as anoraks.

I think the rubbish animation capabilty of the new website will not
endear it even to Jo Public.
Fancy just showing a load of jerks.

Len Wood
Wembury, SW Devon

On May 13, 1:08*am, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On May 12, 12:02*pm, Martin Rowley wrote:









On 12/05/2012 11:45, Phil Layton wrote: On 12/05/2012 10:46, Martin Rowley wrote:
... not sure how others are getting on with this: I'm trying to
persevere with it but there are irritations .... but also work-arounds:-
snip

Thanks Martin. I had a go, but still prefer Sat24.com and raintoday.com
as my preferred source!

... I entirely agree Phil! I'm trying to give the breakfast served up by
the dog the best of chances, but it's hard going; like you, I use other
sites for the most part - the Met Office site has virtually dropped off
my 'operational' list.

Martin.

--
Martin Rowley
West Moors/East Dorset UK

* * *Surely the breakfast is served up *for* the dog, not by it.
Clearly the site has done for your brain and I'm going to make
absolutely certain that it doesn't do the same for mine. *Your
diligence is commendable but why on earth should I have to faff around
in this manner for something that is inferior to the original in the
first place? (3 hr vs 6). *I only use the Met Office site for the
rainfall radar and will continue to use the old site until they pull
it, then I'll be off elsewhere. *Well done, Met Office - your self-
absorption knows no bounds.

The dog's breakfast refers to the supper he regurgitated during the
night. They are ceremonially unclean to Jews because of this habit of
chewing the cud.

Personally I find it quite tasty.
I couldn't do without my daily dose of the North Atlantic SSPs.

It is All I look at there though. It has never been the same since
they ditched all their tropical cyclone data. I prefer Unisys for that
now.

On May 13, 1:08*am, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On May 12, 12:02*pm, Martin Rowley wrote:





On 12/05/2012 11:45, Phil Layton wrote: On 12/05/2012 10:46, Martin Rowley wrote:
... not sure how others are getting on with this: I'm trying to
persevere with it but there are irritations .... but also work-arounds:-
snip

Thanks Martin. I had a go, but still prefer Sat24.com and raintoday.com
as my preferred source!

... I entirely agree Phil! I'm trying to give the breakfast served up by
the dog the best of chances, but it's hard going; like you, I use other
sites for the most part - the Met Office site has virtually dropped off
my 'operational' list.

Martin.

--
Martin Rowley
West Moors/East Dorset UK

* * *Surely the breakfast is served up *for* the dog, not by it.
Clearly the site has done for your brain and I'm going to make
absolutely certain that it doesn't do the same for mine. *Your
diligence is commendable but why on earth should I have to faff around
in this manner for something that is inferior to the original in the
first place? (3 hr vs 6). *I only use the Met Office site for the
rainfall radar and will continue to use the old site until they pull
it, then I'll be off elsewhere. *Well done, Met Office - your self-
absorption knows no bounds.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

Spot on Tudor, I tried one more time yesterday and that damned peice
of propagandist poo crashed my wireless networkas it tried to load a
page. Where I disagree with you is letting UKMO of the bloody hook. It
seems that tax subsidised organisations UKMO and technologies like
wind turbines who whole rationale for being seems to be AGW do not
work period.!!!

How much longer must we put up with this tripe or fund it?

On May 15, 7:20*pm, Lawrence13 wrote:
On May 13, 1:08*am, Tudor Hughes wrote:





On May 12, 12:02*pm, Martin Rowley wrote:

On 12/05/2012 11:45, Phil Layton wrote: On 12/05/2012 10:46, Martin Rowley wrote:
... not sure how others are getting on with this: I'm trying to
persevere with it but there are irritations .... but also work-arounds:-
snip

Thanks Martin. I had a go, but still prefer Sat24.com and raintoday..com
as my preferred source!

... I entirely agree Phil! I'm trying to give the breakfast served up by
the dog the best of chances, but it's hard going; like you, I use other
sites for the most part - the Met Office site has virtually dropped off
my 'operational' list.

Martin.

--
Martin Rowley
West Moors/East Dorset UK

* * *Surely the breakfast is served up *for* the dog, not by it.
Clearly the site has done for your brain and I'm going to make
absolutely certain that it doesn't do the same for mine. *Your
diligence is commendable but why on earth should I have to faff around
in this manner for something that is inferior to the original in the
first place? (3 hr vs 6). *I only use the Met Office site for the
rainfall radar and will continue to use the old site until they pull
it, then I'll be off elsewhere. *Well done, Met Office - your self-
absorption knows no bounds.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

Spot on Tudor, I tried one more time yesterday and that damned peice
of propagandist *poo crashed my wireless networkas it tried to load a
page. Where I disagree with you is letting UKMO of the bloody hook. It
seems that tax subsidised *organisations UKMO and technologies like
wind turbines who whole rationale for being seems to be AGW do not
work period.!!!

How much longer must we put up with this tripe or fund it?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I'm letting them off the hook only in the sense that if I don't
like a pub, say, I stop going there rather than trying to get it shut
down or smashing the place up. (not the Golden Lion, please note).
The reduced numbers of site visitors will tell the Met Office
something but whether they'll take any notice is debatable.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

On 2012-05-12, Phil Layton wrote:

Thanks Martin. I had a go, but still prefer Sat24.com and raintoday.com
as my preferred source!


I think you mean www.raintoday.co.uk. raintoday.com is some kind of
training website.
--
John