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The lines on the weathermap in some weather reports
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When I first noticed this 5-6 years ago, I thought "that won't last long, surely". I am not sure which weather report it is in, but it's really shabby looking.
They are obviously 4 widescreen TV's stuck together, and you can see the cracks. They aren't even central to the map which irks me. Also the country is the same colour as bile.
Has anyone else noticed, which channel is it I am talking about? when will they get a proper map.
They are obviously 4 widescreen TV's stuck together, and you can see the cracks. They aren't even central to the map which irks me. Also the country is the same colour as bile.
Has anyone else noticed, which channel is it I am talking about? when will they get a proper map.
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I remember seeing those lines but cant remember which channel. You are quite correct though - they are annoying as hell.
Don't they have a green wall behind the weather forecaster then insert the map electronically? It is probably just the way the computer builds up the map in sections and joins them together (electronically). It seems very unlikely they have four widescreen TVs stacked up and side by side.
When the weather is standalone, it's green screen.
Essentially they are a bunch of giant screens stacked up and side-by-side!
http://www.barco.com/en/broadcasting/
They do still appear, albeit less regularly than they used to.
I think if you are going to bring excessive graphics into it you should be creative. Make the weather forcaster into a digital cartoon seagul using motion capture or something.
I think they either do this because the news presenters may need to go to the bog, or to justify the weather department's budget.....pointless though, especially on a day when there is hardly a cloud over Britain.
How many times do we watch the weather forecast, and afterwards not have a clue what was said !
Made me think of Cyril Ockenden on Southern years ago. In depth information and low tech!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4lCRQg7JVI
Last time I saw isobars on a forecast they merrily referred to them as 'these wavys lines'. Not dumbed down at all then.
Mike fish still does weather forecasts on netweather.tv but no fluffy sticky clouds etc just isobars and computer graphics.
they still mean absolutely nothing to me, love it, like the Met Office fishing forecast.
the fishing forecast? thats a new one on me...
Do you not mean the shipping forecast?
yes! lol. I knew I'd got the name of it wrong somehow, didn't look right.