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"wafflycat" wrote:
"Keith (Southend)" wrote:

Good old Jim Bacon checked over his shoulder to check nobody was
watching then preceded to show an Atlantic Isobar animation for the next
three days, no fronts, buts it's a start. If you read this Jim, Thanks.

Damn! I missed it! If I'd seen it I'd have sent in a thank you email!

Don't worry ... I'm pretty sure he's lurking.

pe


Well if he is... *ta muchly!* that man. Carry on the good work! There's a
certain family in mid-Norfolk to whom estimation of wind direction & speed
is vital, for commuting, leisure & competitive cycling. So... what's it
going to be this evening about 5pm - 7pm then?? ;-)

Cheers!

On Wed, 25 May 2005 18:59:55 +0100, "Keith (Southend)"
wrote:

Good old Jim Bacon checked over his shoulder to check nobody was
watching then preceded to show an Atlantic Isobar animation for the next
three days, no fronts, buts it's a start. If you read this Jim, Thanks.

Keep the pressure up guys, I think we're getting through 'Houston'.

BBC South Today sent Alina Jones out into the gaden this evening
but she still showed animated isobars AND fronts on a North Atlantic
chart this evening, as she did last Friday when I last looked. Fronts
still looked rather crudely drawn in and the frontal symbols too small
- the new system is clearly the problem, here - but it was far better
than not having them at all. She also calls them "fronts", not
"weather fronts".

Alina again threw almost everything in, including the standard wind
field animation complete with tiny squiggly arrows which were, of
course, almost useless apart from vaguely indicating a veer from SE to
SW tomorrow. That definitely needs a big redesign - but she is
clearly aware of it and added TWO clear, full screen graphics of wind
speed and direction in four major ports - for tonight and for
tomorrow.

I also checked BBC Wales as like the South, they have a long length of
coastline. Unfortunately, Liam Dutton showed no isobars,
National/Atlantic graphics or wind information of any kind, not even
for coastal waters so only one star there, to Alina's four out of five
with another half for effort. I'm starting to feel quite pampered and
will now do an email of support for her and her producer's apparent
stand against the decree from on high.

I'll try to check another region, tomorrow.

--
Dave

Dave Ludlow wrote:
On Wed, 25 May 2005 18:59:55 +0100, "Keith (Southend)"
wrote:


Good old Jim Bacon checked over his shoulder to check nobody was
watching then preceded to show an Atlantic Isobar animation for the next
three days, no fronts, buts it's a start. If you read this Jim, Thanks.

Keep the pressure up guys, I think we're getting through 'Houston'.


BBC South Today sent Alina Jones out into the gaden this evening
but she still showed animated isobars AND fronts on a North Atlantic
chart this evening, as she did last Friday when I last looked. Fronts
still looked rather crudely drawn in and the frontal symbols too small
- the new system is clearly the problem, here - but it was far better
than not having them at all. She also calls them "fronts", not
"weather fronts".

Alina again threw almost everything in, including the standard wind
field animation complete with tiny squiggly arrows which were, of
course, almost useless apart from vaguely indicating a veer from SE to
SW tomorrow. That definitely needs a big redesign - but she is
clearly aware of it and added TWO clear, full screen graphics of wind
speed and direction in four major ports - for tonight and for
tomorrow.

I also checked BBC Wales as like the South, they have a long length of
coastline. Unfortunately, Liam Dutton showed no isobars,
National/Atlantic graphics or wind information of any kind, not even
for coastal waters so only one star there, to Alina's four out of five
with another half for effort. I'm starting to feel quite pampered and
will now do an email of support for her and her producer's apparent
stand against the decree from on high.

I'll try to check another region, tomorrow.

Jim Bacon did not show any isobars this evening on Look East :-(

--
Keith (Southend)

'Weather Home & Abroad'
http://www.southendweather.net

On Thu, 26 May 2005 21:11:44 +0100, Dave Ludlow
wrote:


BBC South Today sent Alina Jones out into the gaden this evening
but she still showed animated isobars AND fronts on a North Atlantic
chart this evening, as she did last Friday when I last looked.

Dave- so did you do the original posting about last Friday(which I
have lost). If so,on another thread you will see she is quite
interested to see what is/was being said!
Cheers
Robin

On Fri, 27 May 2005 18:15:00 +0100, Robin Nicholson
wrote:

On Thu, 26 May 2005 21:11:44 +0100, Dave Ludlow
wrote:


BBC South Today sent Alina Jones out into the gaden this evening
but she still showed animated isobars AND fronts on a North Atlantic
chart this evening, as she did last Friday when I last looked.

Dave- so did you do the original posting about last Friday(which I
have lost). If so,on another thread you will see she is quite
interested to see what is/was being said!
Cheers
Robin

Yes Robin, guilty as charged! I intended to email her but I haven't
yet got round to it, it's been busy week for me. Here's the original
thread, archived at Google Groups:

http://tinyurl.com/dqf8q

and if there's any problem with that, let me know. I think she may be
even more interested that Martin agreed with me!

On Fri, 20 May 2005 20:30:22 +0100, Dave Ludlow
wrote:

Here is a rundown on the BBC regional forecast on South Today this
evening. It lasted 2 minutes, used the new graphics system and I am
hard pressed to think of anything to complain about - so well done,
Alina Jenkins.

[blow-by-blow details snipped]
All the time, the graphics were reinforced by a useful, relevant and
timely commentary by this excellent presenter, who gets 10 out of 10.

This was such a transformation from what I've witnessed on the
National Forecasts all week that I have only two observations to make,
both are minor issues that I think will be put right in time:

1) Change the brown background
2) Improve the appearance of fronts and their junction with isobars -
and add the pressure reading.

However, Alina has managed to address almost every one of my previous
criticisms - and more. Her dialogue was clear, concise and correctly
paced; everything she said reinforced the current graphics display,
which she chose carefully and correctly.

I'm not saying you'd get all that into a National forecast and
certainly not into one minute - but goodness me, she got ALL the
basics right and it would make an excellent starting point for any
budding weather presenter's training course.

Alina, you were BRILLIANT!

Cheers

--
Dave