Met Office dumbed out of sight!
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ChrisE
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Robin,
You are turning into a grumpy old git, it looks like a perfectly reasonable website to me.
Chris
You are turning into a grumpy old git, it looks like a perfectly reasonable website to me.
Chris
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Not sure why you think local forecast is poor. Its seems a marked improvement on the old version with a picture of a cloud, temperature and wind direction.
Zoomed isobars on the pressure tab are particularly useful.
Zoomed isobars on the pressure tab are particularly useful.
J
jstr
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Met Office SCRAMBLE - Links changed!!
Just spent five minutes re-doing all my IE links - very annoying. But the most annoying thing is that the Central Southern Area has vanished - you now only get London & SE or SW. That is annoying! Especially if you are Solent based.
In other ways, some of the site has improved - the local forecasts owe something to Metcheck methinks!
Just spent five minutes re-doing all my IE links - very annoying. But the most annoying thing is that the Central Southern Area has vanished - you now only get London & SE or SW. That is annoying! Especially if you are Solent based.
In other ways, some of the site has improved - the local forecasts owe something to Metcheck methinks!
Robin
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You are turning into a grumpy old git, it looks like a perfectly reasonable website to me.
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Chis
I have always been one, I don't do U-turns! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
However I have had a second look again this morning and found it not as bad as it seemed when I looked late last night for a quick take on the next few days!
As someone else has said however we have 'lost' our area overnight! We (Poole) were central southern England, one of three areas making up the south coast. Now there are only two areas and we are relocated in the south west area, you lot in the Solent are now in the south east area. This is a very backward step for us as our weather is not consistent with either SW or SE, so now we have to look up two areas and interpolate. If you click on 'Poole' for local weather it very obligingly relocates the map to show Poole dead centre, but it doesn't show the weather for this map area but just for the dead centre spot of Poole, the rest of the map is blank Previously the central south map for example would show wind speed and direction for both land and inshore from just west of Portland to just east of the Isle of Wight, very useful.
I haven't looked in detail at the rest of the site yet but assume the Shipping forecast and inshore forecasts are as was, because they are new anyway.
Robin
You are turning into a grumpy old git, it looks like a perfectly reasonable website to me.
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Chis
I have always been one, I don't do U-turns! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
However I have had a second look again this morning and found it not as bad as it seemed when I looked late last night for a quick take on the next few days!
As someone else has said however we have 'lost' our area overnight! We (Poole) were central southern England, one of three areas making up the south coast. Now there are only two areas and we are relocated in the south west area, you lot in the Solent are now in the south east area. This is a very backward step for us as our weather is not consistent with either SW or SE, so now we have to look up two areas and interpolate. If you click on 'Poole' for local weather it very obligingly relocates the map to show Poole dead centre, but it doesn't show the weather for this map area but just for the dead centre spot of Poole, the rest of the map is blank Previously the central south map for example would show wind speed and direction for both land and inshore from just west of Portland to just east of the Isle of Wight, very useful.
I haven't looked in detail at the rest of the site yet but assume the Shipping forecast and inshore forecasts are as was, because they are new anyway.
Robin
cpedw
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I can't find anywhere a scale for the Rainfall regional charts. Is blue a lot of rain or not much? Anybody know?
Derek.
Derek.
deep denial
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where can I find these 'zoomed isobars?'
duncan
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well expect light SW on a lumpy sea Saturday morning with a S 8 rearing it's head briefly on Sunday am
overall the website is still probably better than the weather this weekend /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
having said that I may wander out Sunday for some fun!
overall the website is still probably better than the weather this weekend /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
having said that I may wander out Sunday for some fun!
Twister_Ken
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Looks better to me. Couple of extra clicks to get where you want to be though.
Robin
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Revised view of new Met forecast
Well now I have had more time to look I realise I like it!
The problem however is with the general local area forecast that was the one I initially looked at last night. Central Southern England no longer exists! We have to be either South West or South East as the join passes right though our bit, this wouldn't matter except that our (Central Southern) area rarely has the same weather as it is in either in the SW or in the SE.
Well now I have had more time to look I realise I like it!
The problem however is with the general local area forecast that was the one I initially looked at last night. Central Southern England no longer exists! We have to be either South West or South East as the join passes right though our bit, this wouldn't matter except that our (Central Southern) area rarely has the same weather as it is in either in the SW or in the SE.
ChrisE
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Re: Revised view of new Met forecast
Does this make you a new, reformed, not-so-miserable git /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Does this make you a new, reformed, not-so-miserable git /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Robin
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Re: Revised view of new Met forecast
Don't push your luck! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Don't push your luck! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Dipper
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If you are referring to the basic local rainfall predictions then it looks as though there is only blue (rain) or nothing (no rain).
The rainfall radar index page is multicoloured and has a coloured key on the left. When you zoom in, the key does disappear!
The rainfall radar index page is multicoloured and has a coloured key on the left. When you zoom in, the key does disappear!
rwoofer
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The biggest problem I have is that now you cannot use the site with mobile phones cause of all the new rich content. The old shipping/inshore forecast was a straight text file - perfect for mobile.
I'm sure others must be using mobile as well, so I think this is a major step backwards and an impact on safety.
I'm sure others must be using mobile as well, so I think this is a major step backwards and an impact on safety.
Robin
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There are straight text versions of the shipping forecast and inshore forecasts, will these work?
Shipping Forecast text only
Inshore Waters Forecast text only
Shipping Forecast text only
Inshore Waters Forecast text only
cpedw
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Yes; the Strathclyde forecast has lots of different colours. They correspond with the key on that radar page you quoted; thanks, but there's no key I can find on the regional forecast page.
The button marked by a key describes symbols used on other pages, including UV index (now that's useful at the moment) but nothing about rainfall.
Thansk again,
Derek
The button marked by a key describes symbols used on other pages, including UV index (now that's useful at the moment) but nothing about rainfall.
Thansk again,
Derek
BrendanS
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when you click on the key, scroll down to rainfall radar imagery, under UV, where there is a colour chart
rwoofer
Well-Known Member
That's useful. I couldn't find them myself, so I'll just bookmark your links.
Thanks Robin
Thanks Robin
Robin
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You just go to the page for Shippiing Forecast or Inshore Forecast and both give you an option at the top for a printer friendly text only page.
Robin
Robin
JonJon
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Its a bit like when you whizz in to the supermarket and they've moved the Youghurts doesnt make em taste better just harder to find - I spose it keeps website engineers employed and therefore obviously of gereat benefit to the nation as a whole?
