.... 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.



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