The changing weather.
They're changing the online weather. We might talk about it tonight on the programme.
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I see the website is going to be much 'flatter', so I suppose I'll have to lay my computer monitor on its back to view it. It's the 3D TV weather map debacle all over again.
Typical BBC! I feel nauseous already...
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I do like the idea of three-hourly indication of how the day's weather is going to pan out.
I can always tell what it's like now by just looking out the window (except when it's foggy, of course. Or dark.).
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I'd be quite happy for them to change the weather.
Can I put in a request for some heavy snow in the south, followed by bright sunshine, a straightforward thaw, and then straight into some brilliant spring weather? Oh, and for dessert, a lovely summer, please.
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Big thumbs up. I remember contributing to some consumer feedback about the Weather page a couple of years ago and this is quite like how I like 'at a glance' weather presented.
I like the ability to move sections around, hope it develops to become like the main homepage and lets us show/hide individual sections (e.g. coastal forecasts etc) too.
As well as the regional map, once configured could we also have a small UK map (on the left perhaps?) showing the main isobars and position of the jet stream etc.
NB Don't think the map is 3D at all; or SE England centric. Just tried a few cities, including Edinburgh, and it seems straightforward.
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"We might talk about it tonight on the programme"
But then again, you might not.
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I'm impressed!
DiY :-D
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I'm more concerned with the actual weather than the presentation of such. I go for a squelch with the dogs every day. Much more rain and the UK might become submerged.
The BBC weather forecasts seem to skip over The Borders; slide up Wales to N Ireland, over to Scotland, down the centre, take in East Coast and safely back home to the SE and London. Occasionally we will be grouped under Midlands, but fleetingly.
I'm investing in Wellies, a growth market in futures.
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I look forward to seeing it - I currently look at another site as well as the BBC to pick the best time for my daily walk. A breakdown by hours would be useful.
However, what does surprise me is that comparing two sites tends to come up with completely different forecasts!
Not sure how that works!
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Sorry, BBC, I use Accuweather - much more accurate and gives hourly forecasts :-(
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Peterpassword, do you mean that the forecast passes over the Scottish Borders? As in the other day ‘Central Scotland and Northern England' or ignored completely as in ‘Eastern Scotland, Aberdeen’. The Highlands seem to move about and I don’t think Central Scotland is in the middle. Could someone enlighten me please?
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Tried the forcast videos last weekend. Very useful, except for the odd image which was clearly out of sequence.
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Hello,
In these times of concern for the environment and the Earth, and our use of its resources. Is it not wrong that the Carbon Trust are using wasteful, night-time upward pointing lighting for it's advert bill boards, in London and around the UK. This lighting must waste energy, is incorrectly used,and will/does result in light spillage into the sky, Light Pollution.
A big carbon footprint if you ask me!
Not good PR for the Carbon Trust!
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Number 7 (Petepassword). I too take a dog for a sodden walk every day. We start off one reasonably clean and dry human and one beautiful white dog. We return with wet human and brown dog. So if we are allowed requests for this change of weather could we have at least four dry days in every seven?
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Coming to a Town near us soon..?
"Japanese economy hit by "perfect storm""
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/4394451/Japanese-economy-hit-by-perfect-storm.html
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10. Dappergent
I was talking about the Wales/England borders, or Marches as they're called. So Scottish borders too huh? This could be a BBC conspiracy, J. Ross probably hates boarders.
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13. toughCuriousCat
Ah yes, the beauty of dog towels, getting in between those long toes. Red brown clay as we have here seems to stain white dogs' feet.
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Well I've had a look at the Beta weather site and find that when I put in my location the forecast comes from somewhere 57 miles to the west of my location! It tells me that this is the nearest location to me!
Living in the Scottish Borders - the east of Scotland - the weather in the west of Scotland (South Lanarkshire) is really no use to me at all.
It's like giving people in Wolverhampton the weather report from Leicester.
So much for it "giving you all you need for your local area".
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