You do realize that it’s a satellite projection, and the colors are somewhat realistic? The point of view is from geostationary orbit, it’s the only stable place that a satellite can “park” and have continuous coverage of your whole country.
Is weather radar a regular part of the broadcasts? Here, most weather reports start and end with a general forecast, and the middle is radar data from whatever source they buy it from. Are there Doppler radar sites spead across the UK and Europe that have public weather access?
I ask this because the questions and comments here sound like you’re talking about weather forecasts from the 1970s.
Heh heh, sounds like you’re talking about forecasts from the 1990s
It’s not a satellite projection - it’s a completely new 3D computer-generated model. The Met Office has invested in a huge system to automatically create this visual model of the weather, from all the data they receive. It’s possible for the forecasters to change the projection to any angle they want. Which is why we’ve got the Scots griping that they’re being left furthest away, in the ‘default’ projection. Plus the usual British whine of ‘but why change it?’, and then ignore the valid answers (such as what I’ve said earlier).
Apart from your “answers” aren’t a valid reason to change the projection at all, are they? You stated that the old one needed changing so as to be more accurate, yet these changes could have been implemented on the old top down projection easily.
Oh, and you’re still claiming there’s only one projection being used, ignoring my pointing out that there’s been forecasts already which concentrated on Scotland.
:rolleyes: That’s not what I said. When the situation over Scotland needs particular focus, it gets it. When the situation over southern England needs particular focus, it gets it. What’s the problem with that?
[QUOTE=GorillaMan(And as for any of the complaints cropping up all over the place about not showing fronts…when did you last see fronts on a BBC forecase?)[/QUOTE]
You’re kidding, right? Everymain forecast used to show fronts.
That isn’t party bunting, it’s fucking weather fronts. Isobars. You know, things that actually tell you what’s going on with the weather but which the BBC apparently deems us too stupid to understand.
Apart from being ungrammatical, which overpaid empty-headed image consultant circa 1987 wrote that little platitude? They might as well say “Change for change’s sake - otherwise how can you justify paying shitloads of fat executives shitloads of cash to do fuck all?”
I’m really not sure that every forecast did. The eight-minute ones on News 24, maybe, but not the half-six bulletin for Grandma.
That one’s an excellent example of my point about the old symbols being inaccurate by their generality. What single symbol would you put on East Anglia to represent what you’re seeing?
