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Article #156Re: New National(ist) BBC Weather
From: Ian Johnston
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 22:10
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 22:10
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On Mon, 16 May 2005 18:46:14 UTC, David Marsh <david@bogus.domain.dom> wrote: > [1] I can't believe that real meteorologists, which I thought all BBC > weather forecasters are, could surely have failed to notice that > Scotland's 'varied' topology packs a lot of different weather into a > small space, and therefore there can be many fairly local differences, > so it's important that the map keeps the same proportions throughout so > that an equal amount of detail can be shown. I'd have thought that somewhere with a lot of variation is precisely where you'd want to weight things to centres of population. Do we really want as much time spent on Ullapool vs Thurso weather as Glasgow vs Edinburgh? Local forecasts can, of course, fill in the detail, but national ones are probably justified in sticking mainly to the busier areas. Ian --
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