Weather Presenters banging on about rubbish instead of the actual weather!

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TriniaB

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I'm sick of the news on BBC1 and ITV3 saying 'now lets get the latest weather' but then having to sit through 4 to 5 minutes of the weather presenter banging on about a viewer photograph or some place they think is interesting ARGHH :mad:

anyone else with they would just get on with the weather?
 
Weather forecasts are a waste of time. They're always getting it wrong and spend most of the time telling us what has already happened.

My weather forecast consists of looking out the window.
 
Yes this is happening more and more now.. Funny how they never mention the weather at sporting occasions etc that the BBC isn't covering later on!
 
I never understand why we have a national forecast then a local forecast (which often contradicts what the national forecaster has just said about the region). Can't be many people who travel from the south of England to northern Scotland in one day - surely the local forecast is sufficient for 99% of viewers:confused:
 
My pet hates as far as weather presenters go is either -

"Yesterday it was x degrees" - with the accompanying map. I know what the weather was like yesterday. I was there.

OR

"The weather right now in Cuba is ............". I'm not in Cuba right now - if I was I wouldn't be watching the bbc news.

"The skiing is very good just now in.......". Right I'll get my skis and a teleport machine, will I?

Just tell me how cold and wet I'm going to get (based on tea leaves or summat) and then go away!!!
 
I find the BBC TV weather forecasts are pretty accurate provided you look at the chart and ignore what the forecaster is saying. He/she witters on about "as we head through the day temperatures will struggle..." etc. etc. This morning one of them said, in an injured tone, that it would be "rather autumnal".
That's because it's autumn!
 
The best weather presenter ever was one Jeremy Paxman when they did the weather on newsnight for a week.

some of his lines were superb, including

"Its April, so what do you think"
 
Some on here would have you believing that forecasting has improved. But it hasn't.

A change from "a possibility of showers during the day" to a more specific. "Showers around lunchtime" and then it starts chucking it down at 11.00am is not an improvement in my book.

"The Weather Show!" (someone on here objected to me using that term, but I think it's accurate given the "song and dance" the presenters make just relating the Met office forecast) is "cheap telly." By dragging it out it helps fill the schedules. But a lot of these presenters probably want to go onto presenting other programmes and do their best to get themselves noticed.

I've said elsewhere that I can't see why they can't go back to the news presenters giving the forecast at the end of the news, with some average pay minion previously arranging the magnetic isobars and symbols on a couple of maps.
Think of the money saved by firing all the weather dollys and weather men presenters.
You don't need a degree in meteorology to read the Met forecast.

Anyone requiring a more detailed forecast can get it off c-fax. If they're watching TV the remote is likely to be in reaching distance.
 
We're just coming up to the dreaded time of year when they start acting as though we're all desperate for snow...until there's too much snow, when they'll decide we're all fed up with snow. I wish they'd stop assuming we either love or hate whatever weather conditions are coming and just give us the facts.
 
Sorry chum, you can't argue with the number of mornings every year I've had rain streaming down my kneck on the golf course, when they said it wouldn't rain 'til the afternoon.

You keep your statistics, I'll stick to the reality.
 
No, the ONLY way to judge these things is through science. "Reality" is very often influenced by perception - Your perception of weather forecasts, for whatever reason, is obviously very poor and that is influencing your "reality"

The fact is, Met Office accuracy has improved year on year for at least 30 years. It could be better of course, and it WILL get better as the science is advanced further, but the Met Office accuracy out to five days is now very good.
 
Now, if weather presenters took that attitude during forecasts instead of spouting all this pretentious guff about umbrellas and picnics, I'd probably make an effort to watch. Far more entertaining!!
 
i know they talk about sporting events where a miniscule amount of people in the country will be attending so who cares if the weather is going to rain at Arsenal tomorrow they are there for the football not the bloody weather
 
Sorry you're still wrong, certainly about the forecast where we live south of Manchester.
It's notoriously inaccurate sometimes, simply because they can't predict the wind speeRAB, probably because of the hills on three sides. It's the wind that brings the weather, so the predicted weather is sometimes either early or late. I've experienced it for nearly forty years so I'm not going to argue with you.

Another thing, look at the regional maps on c-fax
The bottom of the "North" map can look entirely different to the top of the "MidlanRAB" map, that's how vague it can be sometimes, but it's the same area.
 
I hate the comments Dan adRAB to his forecasts ie.-

A good day to take the picnic baskets into the park.... but it's a Monday and "most" of us are working wishing we could go into the park!!!!!

Or he says about the sky "it's like someone has gone over it with a blue crayon!!!!!"
....there isn't the slightest resemblance to any blue crayon.

Best presenter is Tomasz Schafernaker
But looks like he is on the way out according to this article HERE.

I have just watched Nazaneen Ghaffar's last forecast on BBC South East Today..... wonder where she is off to?

PC
 
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