please empty your brain below
It'll change back... thye symbols were simple and easily understandable....we need to whether it's two dot or one dot rain not how deeply the rain is shaded!

I'll be sticking with the online version (which I use more anyway).

NiC | Homepage | 16.05.05 - 9:38 a.m. | #

Someone did e-mail BBC Breakfast to say that it doesn't make sense on a Black and White TV with all the brown shades, and what looks like the massive flood plain where they illustrate where it's going to rain.

I don't like the new ones either. Will also be sticking with online weather.

Laura-Ann | Homepage | 16.05.05 - 10:23 a.m. | #

Dammit, I missed the news this morning (slept-in). I've already heard that Scotland was "tilted" back and people were complaining... I'll reserve judgement as yet.

Is it true they featured only "other" places on the map... Norwich and the like?

Gordon | Homepage | 16.05.05 - 11:32 a.m. | #

Grrr grrrr grrrr - I'm a modern sort of woman, with no particular aversion to updating where necessary. But why? The fact that some people said in a survey that they probably weren't concentrating on very much that the old symbols were out of date does not lead to the inexorable conclusion that (a) it should therefore be changed to something completely different or (b) that the change should therefore be to some whizzy, vomit-inducing graphics that you have to concentrate on. I liked being able to take a quick glance if the weather happened to pop up. Oh dear, I appear to have turned into a Grumpy Old Woman overnight.

Katherine | 16.05.05 - 11:45 a.m. | #

Three cheers for New Zealand, the country that's ahead of the rest of the world.

Great Aunt Annie | 16.05.05 - 12:43 p.m. | #

Mr BW (who knows about these technical TV things) tells me that the map that they flutter their hands over isn't actually there in reality anyway.

Blue Witch | Homepage | 16.05.05 - 12:43 p.m. | #

It's all witchcraft.

Ant | Homepage | 16.05.05 - 1:44 p.m. | #

Indeed it was sick inducing, and I look fforward to reading the BBC Audience Log tomorrow.

On the plus side, such is the perspective, I can actually see the exact position of my house.

Scaryduck | Homepage | 16.05.05 - 1:53 p.m. | #

And i don't know why the land had to be brown. It looked extremely gloomy. And I miss the weathermen fighting with the magnets that refuse to stick over each other (like when its going from cloud to thunder) even though that was years ago.

harriet | Homepage | 16.05.05 - 4:54 p.m. | #

Well, I've given it a whole day but, despite it being from the very wonderful EnZee, it's crap. The old version worked fine and was a piss easy to understand. This is just silly.

It'll change back soon I'm sure.

NiC | Homepage | 16.05.05 - 6:36 p.m. | #

They've been lucky with the weather on the first day - sunshine, a moving band of heavy rain, showers, snow and frost - everything they need to show off the new software.

But, as Scaryduck hints, the viewers hate it. Comments on the BBC website are currently running strongly against the new system.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 16.05.05 - 7:11 p.m. | #

Just seen them for the first time

The national weather is very nausea inducing, due to the way they move about, but I think it's a huge improvement for the local weather.

Green rather than brown would be better for land mass though (although I like the way it lightens and darkens with cloud).

Blue Witch | Homepage | 16.05.05 - 8:07 p.m. | #

They've been using the system on the BBC Highlands for a while, as experienced by us on holiday in Perthshire July 2002. I hated it then, it's not improved now.

verity74 | 16.05.05 - 9:52 p.m. | #

One woman this morning complained that there were not enough place names on the new maps, and she had to guess where she lived....I despair for some people, I really do.

I think we will all get used to it and it will stay.

Essexgirl | Homepage | 16.05.05 - 11:43 p.m. | #

all you bloody English - so resistant to change! you'd all still complain even if it was an improvement! (which it clearly is)
Its time to move on from the 1940's UK! The rest of the world is moving way, way ahead....

Anonymous | 17.05.05 - 6:34 p.m. | #

We woke up this morning to read in the paper about you Brits complaining. You have my sympathies. I just loved the cute little symbols.

Read about the New Zealand take on it here:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/
index....jectID=10126111

omykiss | Homepage | 18.05.05 - 2:54 a.m. | #

The NZ Herald has got it wrong. The graphics sold to the BBC are very different from the attractive graphics we see on TVNZ (check the picture - green!).

Great Aunt Annie | 18.05.05 - 9:27 a.m. | #











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