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BBC weather - TV forecasts too insular ???
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Given that UK residents make c 56 million visits abroad each year then surely there is a need for, and interest in, BBC TV weather regularly informing viewers about the weather in Europe, as well as elsewhere albeit on a less regular basis.
BBC news provides UK forecast every 30 mins, which I suggest is an overkill (not least to the weather presenters themselves) Much better use could be made of the slots if there were say 3/4x per day when there was a forecast for significant holiday regions.
Isn't it time for an upgrade - yes we all need/use UK forecasts and they are good, but for TV to ignore the regions outside the UK, to which we make 56+ million visits/yr is to ignore the weather info interests and needs of the majority of UK residents.
BBC news provides UK forecast every 30 mins, which I suggest is an overkill (not least to the weather presenters themselves) Much better use could be made of the slots if there were say 3/4x per day when there was a forecast for significant holiday regions.
Isn't it time for an upgrade - yes we all need/use UK forecasts and they are good, but for TV to ignore the regions outside the UK, to which we make 56+ million visits/yr is to ignore the weather info interests and needs of the majority of UK residents.
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Why? So they can get the weather wrong in other countries as well as here?!
I do not see how given how big the world is how the BBC should start to present what the weather will be globally. They could either show just a small bit of the world in detail, which would be irrelevant to most of the viewers, or do what BBC World do and show a whole continent at a time, which is not overly informative if you want to know whether to hit the beach or go to the pool.
I think he would if they let him:D
You'd see his Schafernackers then.:D
I live in the East Midlands and have never understood why I need to know the weather in the South of England. If I ever wanted to go there I would find out.
Mmm yeah! Any time!
It is difficult enough to give the forecast for the whole UK, British weather is very complicated and two places a few miles apart can be completely different.
I don't think there is a great demand for a worldwide forecast apart from on the overseas version of BBC News. The majority of the 56 million are off to sunny places where they know it is going to be always sunny and probably don't check whether it will be not.
People in Shetland complain because usually the weather forecast for these is very brief when it probably needs more time because of the complexity. I am sure they also ask why they should get the forecast for the South of England (the way the area is shrunk on the maps is often commented on!).
Time to get rid of that dirty brown sandy UK image, and give us back a proper sunshine symbol too. Hard to believe that BBC forecasts do not even have a symbol for that most well liked of weather - the sunshine of a clear day.
Here is a fantastic website that will keep you bang up to date worldwide with just about everything you need to know in great detail, although it is more for the here and now rather than forecasts as such;
http://weatherobs.com
This site is a treasure trove of everything imagineable, with links to all kinds of weather sites, including forecasts;
www.greatweather.co.uk
Mind you, the opening graphic tends to summarise quite nicely.
And maybe if you want to know the weather quickly, you glance at the front page of the Daily Express and then assume it's going to be the exact opposite.
eg. It's 10:30am and I'm sat here in the UK watching the weather forecast on the BBC News Channel. Why on earth would I be interested in the weather overseas right now?
If I were intending to go on holiday abroad then I might want to know what the weather is going to be like when I get there in day/week/whatever. But there's time for me to look that up on the internet when I want to.
Other questions about BBC weather it is worth asking....
Why when the country was doing everything in Fahrenheit, did the BBC do everything in Centigrade?
Who decided this, why was it imposed on the country?
Great Britain is an imperial country, like the Americans, with feet/yards/miles on road signs, and Fahrenheit on the mercury.
When we get hot weather in the summer, everyone says it is in the 70's or 80's.
I put it to you lot that if in the winter, the announcers said it will be a mere 30 degrees, your missus would not be running to the thermostat as quickly as if they say minus 1 degree!
And the BBC gets up my nose big time with pure metric measurements. Even Michael Fish used to mention a few inches of snow are due....
The BBC are metric Gestapo, and almost politician like, they give the people what THEY want, not what the public asks for. ...
Sorry pal, what are the road signs marked in round your way??
What size is your TV screen?
Size waist, Size shoe, size collar, need I go on....inches mate, not cm.
6 yard box, 22 yard crease, final furlong?
McDonalds quarter pounder, maybe?
Another reason to leave the evil empire that is the EU, get imperial back!!! Stick that up your centigrade!
One problem is that people listen to a very brief summary of the forecast for the whole UK that only lasts seconds, don't even listen carefully then next day complain that it is the Met Office's (or BBC) fault because the weather is different from what they expected.
I remember years ago one forecaster talking about this, he said typically they would be given two minutes at the end of the Six O'Clock News then a couple of minutes before going live, told that something had overrun and they now only had one minute so had to rewrite the forecast in their head as they prepared to go on air.
You often hear someone being Politically Correct and giving the depth of snow in centimetres when it is obvious they have had a look outside, made an estimate in inches then had to convert to metric (often getting the conversion wrong).