MCC wrote:
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...io/4698329.stm
right at the bottom of the article.

Are but will they listen?

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Keith (Southend) wrote:
MCC wrote:

See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...io/4698329.stm
right at the bottom of the article.

Are but will they listen?

They are listening - I've seen plenty more synoptic charts of late and
wind speed arrows have made a return.

One problem I noticed last week when I was watching the world forecasts
on BBC World - if there's a *lot* of rain (as there was when showing the
monsoons over India and Bangladesh), the animation really starts the chug!

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"Jonathan Stott" wrote in message
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They are listening - I've seen plenty more synoptic charts of late and
wind speed arrows have made a return.

One problem I noticed last week when I was watching the world forecasts on
BBC World - if there's a *lot* of rain (as there was when showing the
monsoons over India and Bangladesh), the animation really starts the chug!

Agree they seem to be listening after initial arrogance. John Hammond's
countryfile forecast was very good on Sunday and included synoptic runs and
many of the charts now include wind speed (in the old style arrows). The
whole thing is still not as clear and unambiguous as before though. I think
they must throw away much of the Metservice stuff and start again. I will be
interesting to see how UK-wide cloudy days, fog, snow, sleet etc are
represented. We already know they have nothing to indicate the difference
between heavy rain and thunderstorm activity.

Did they ever get negative feedback relating to the old graphics?

David

"David Haggas" wrote in message


Did they ever get negative feedback relating to the old graphics?

Did they ever listen if they did?

They may be or rather they are supposedly free from political bias but
that doesn't top them being politicians in all but name:

"Complaining about the weather map has overtaken complaining about the
weather as the favourite national past-time," he said.

And the complaints are as ever more or less ignored we said.

Don't hope for the best and you won't be disappointed. For the life of
me I can't see what was wrong with the old graphics. Why didn't they
just computerise them?

This is 2005 not 1995.

If they wanted free help from a large resource, they could have appealed
to the open programme writers at Mozillazine, the cheap bsradas.


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