New BBC weather graphics

[Plottie]

Does anyone else think the new BBC weather graphics are TERRIBLE?  I can't tell what's supposed to be cloud and what's supposed to be sun and the tours around the regions they give just whizzes over everything and your own area just flashes by in a second

I have felt strongly enough about this to complain to the BBC through their complaint facility on-line

I understand they are receiving lots of negative comments - the more the better, i say, then maybe they'll take notice of the licence payers.

Plottie

[Palustris]

All part of the process of making TV more suitable for the brain dead!

[Annieapples]

Oh I am so glad its not just me   I have just had the sad experience of watching the weather forecast and being no wiser afterwards

Still dont know whether to bring the plants in or not - had pretty heavy frosts over the last few nights here in Derbyshire, so glad its not just early senility setting in.........

[ACE]

You would be better off going here

http://www.met-office.gov.uk/

[tim]

That's a nice one, Heritage.

[maz]

This is a good one too. I have narrowed it down to the district I live in and not just my city.

http://uk.weather.com/

[Tulipa]

I think the new graphics are dreadful, I can't follow them at all.  If I look at the clock to see what time the rain will be here I have then missed where the rain is.  The wind arrows are hopeless too. Bring back the old version!

[Deleted]

Horrible, muddy-looking, grim, unclear. A bit like the weather really...

[Diana]

Glad I don't have telly so I don't have to suffer.

Their web site weather is so often wrong for my area I have taken to expect the exact opposite of what they say.

Met office site much better! Will have a look at yours too Maz - how acurate is it for you?

They got it right today though - rain. Typical!

[Doris_Pinks]

To me it looks like the weatherperson is flying over the countryside! Mary Poppins keeps coming to mind!! And why oh why do we have to have all this fast pace wizz past stuff on TV now, makes me feel quite giddy watching!

[SpeedyMango]

The BBC weather is much too arm-wavy, and always has been. They never concentrated on any of the 'regions' even before the swoopy graphics.

I use metcheck online (www.metcheck.com). They seem to have a handle on things most of the time, can give you local updates based on your postcode and even have a 'gardening forecast', and a 'drying time' forecast if you hang your washing out!

[moonbells]

I've complained about it too.

My problem is that they've narrowed down the field of view on the pressure charts. Before, you could see the systems approaching from the eastern seaboard of the US, and work out for yourself what was going to cross the UK. Now we only have the piddly UK diagram which does have 4-5 days' worth of images but *doesn't* give you the big picture (or for that matter any millibar readings of pressure).

Have bookmarked the met office pressure chart, which looks almost hand-drawn but at least has the information I need.

You also can't see raindrops on the main weather chart if they happen to be placed over the sea. They've made the drops shiny by placing a reflection on them and it's enough to make them near-invisible. Not much good if you're partially sighted... it's hard enough if you can see!

moonbells, awaiting a reply from the BBC on this one.

[kitty]

o thank god fer that-i thought i was going bonkers-i cant keep up with it.my eyes seem to be fascinated by the strange optical effect of giant puddles all over the uk.......and the flying effect leaves me nauseous.....and needless to say-could i tell what the b****y weather ws going to be??
could i b*****y.....
 >:(harumph.......
bring back the stick on suns and clouds and a man with a pointy stick

[gavin]

No telly - but they did sound brilliant (not!) on the R4 preview 

Chuck the box!  - Gavin 

[Doris_Pinks]

But Gavin how would my kids watch the National Geographic channel  (Lions doing what lions do! ) if I chucked the box? I would be lynched!!!

[kitty]

buy them some lions!
cheapskate!
 

[Doris_Pinks]

Now theres a thought Kitty, would stop all the neighbourhood cats cr*pping in my garden too!  But we don't have zebra readily available in the South East to feed them with! (Lions not kids!) And once they had polished off the kids and the hubby, they may get peckish!

[sarahr]

It's getting better, it is not as awful as it was when it first started. The map has slowed down, a lot - I no longer feel . They are also including more cities when they zoom in. However I still am forced to watch the regional news if I want to know what the weather is like in my part of the country, before the big change I could get away with watching the national broadcast. 

[Gadfium]

I'm one of those who feel a bit sick when they go needlessly zooming about.

Plus, of course, despite it being the weather forecast, they don't give you the weather information anymore... no isobars, no millibars, no fronts, no wind speed and direction; and because they insist on speeding about, you don't even get the chance to figure owt out from the little info they deem us worthy of giving. Useless.

What happened to common sense?

I went over to the BBC site and lodged a complaint. Most unlike me.

They have this superb official 'rebuttal' letter,  to us miffed viewers - really worth a gander at - couched in the most wonderfully punctilious politically correct nonsense, about the 'disenfranchised'...

i.e. they admit (without actually admitting anything) that this farrago is all about pandering to those who cannot understand the weather...

Also, I gather that their view is that this technological CGI marvel, gives us a much more comprehensive weather forecast... doesn't actually say how removing all the usual meteorological details from the forecast actually constitutes giving us more information; nor how the rest of the population - which I would imagine to be the non-disenfranchised, who do understand ''the weather" (& often have done so through listening to the BBC Weathermen to begin with) are supposed to know what the heck is happening tonight, tomorrow, can I go sailing, put the plants out, watch out for the front coming in, take the washing in after dinner... etc...


What a mess. What a million pound mess.

[RSJK]

I have given up listening to the forecast, they never seem to get it right just lately,  if I want to know about the weather and what it is doing I just stick my head out the window.