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Daily Mail 21.5.88 You’re in for clearer weather say BBC
BBC weathermen have devised a new ‘idiot’s guide’ to forecasting. From May 30 the graphics will be bigger and better than ever, they say. Clouds will vary in colour from white for fluffy ones to dark grey to show heavy downpours and moving bands of colour to illustrate temperatures. Winds will be shown with moving arrows.
Producer John Teather - said yesterday: ‘Our charts just didn’t get the message across. Surveys have shown that people find it difficult to absorb all the information. ‘Hopefully we’ve now found a better way to communicate. This is an Idiot’s guide to our national obsession and if I can understand it, every one can.’
BBC weathermen have devised a new ‘idiot’s guide’ to forecasting. From May 30 the graphics will be bigger and better than ever, they say. Clouds will vary in colour from white for fluffy ones to dark grey to show heavy downpours and moving bands of colour to illustrate temperatures. Winds will be shown with moving arrows.
Producer John Teather -
Daily Star 21.5.88 Brighter outlook for Beeb weather
THE BBC is spending £1 million to brighten up the weather. From May 30 forecasts will be easier to follow and more accurate.
OUT goes complex talk of isobars and occluded fronts.
IN come high-
BBC weather producer John Teather said: “If this fails after spending all this money, we’ll have to have a topless girl with 43D size boobs presenting the weather.’
Daily Telegraph 21.5.88 Red sky means a downpour on BBC’s computer By Our Media Correspondent
Weather on the BBC is to contain more detail, with the introduction of computerised television forecasts which show wind direction and heaviness of rainfall.
The rain will be indicated by seven shades of blue, the darker the wetter, with very heavy falls in red.
The displays, to be unveiled on May 30, were developed after last October’s hurricane, when the BBC decided bulletins should show wind flows.