Which TV weather forcast do you trust?

mike65

By way of complimenting the How accurate is weather forecasting in the media? thread I thought I should enquire
which TV forcast you watch and trust as opposed to watching and then saying "ha! thats completly different to X."

Vote now!

I voted RTE as they dont treat weather as entertainment (yet).

Mike.

DMC

Nor do the BBC. Sky News's graphics are accurate, but are they easy for the lay man to understand.

I voted for the BBC, as I still love the symbols!!

DMC

Edit: Natch, {IMG} code is off for this forum.

sunbeam

I really hated it when they dummified the Network 2 weather. I presume it is still that way as I've given up watching it. When I did I was usually too distracted by trying to figure out in which department store I had seen the presenters' various glittery tops.

That said there seems to be fewer isobars/technical details etc. on the RTE 1 weather these days too...

I trust the ones presented by actual forecasters, like the RTE ones on six one or the nine news.

And the BBC one is usually quite accurate.

Speaking of symbols DMC.
There was a clip of Michael Fish, I think on "twill be alright on the night" doing the weather years ago when they just stuck those symbols on a board map.
He had put on a sunshine and showers symbol for an overnight forecast:D

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mike65

Damo I can only belive you were hit by at a vital point in your childhood!

Mike.

DMC

Yay! IMG Codes on!

Capt'n Midnight

outlook for the future: scattered showers

LordSutch

Just watched the Snowy condidions in the SE of England on the BBC Weather report, which suggested that the snow will move up the North coast of Britain, while also moving to SW England/ Wales & the East cost of Ireland by Tuesday.

Caught the RTE Weather report a couple of mins later, no real worries about the East coast of Ireland- maybe a few Snow flurries here or there, No weather warnings, nothing to worry about at all really . . .

I dunno who to believe, are the BBC over reacting? or RTE not putting enough emphasis into the forecast.

kerry1960

Camelot wrote: »

Just watched the Snowy condidions in the SE of England on the BBC Weather report, which suggested that the snow will move up the North coast of Britain, while also moving to SW England/ Wales & the East cost of Ireland by Tuesday.

Caught the RTE Weather report a couple of mins later, no real worries about the East coast of Ireland- maybe a few Snow flurries here or there, No weather warnings, nothing to worry about at all really . . .

I dunno who to believe, are the BBC over reacting? or RTE not putting enough emphasis into the forecast.

hey who stole my avatar :mad:...:D

nacho libre

The Beeb.

If they are right about this current cold period i should see at least some of that sacred white stuff by Thursday

Pangea

bbc all the way, met eireann proved they suck at it this week.

LordSutch

kerry1960 wrote: »

hey who stole my avatar :mad:...:D

As Captain of the Enterprise, I order you to exchange your Avatar for another )

I find the BBC Weather Reports more comprehensive than most.

Solair

Yeah, but with the new maps the BBC seems to assume that no weather occurs outside the UK borders. They used to put up symbols for the Republic of Ireland, Northern France, Belgium, the Netherlands etc but, they seem to have adopted a rather narrowly UK-focus now.

Shame really, as it does serve an educational purpose to point out that there are other countries near by with towns, cities and weather and everything!

Sky's presenters also have a terrible habit of standing right in front of Ireland through most of the forecast, even though they officially do have a LOT of Irish viewers.

Omcd

Maybe everyone now has massive big wide 42 inch TVs and I'm just behind the times, but I find the RTE weather symbols for different types of precipitation too tiny to see any difference between them:(.

Welsh Wizard

The weather girl on TV am, is brutal... Think she should work in a creche...

GoldenGreen

For Donegal's weather I would only trust BBC NI weather, RTE get it wrong more times than enough for up here

LordSutch

So now we have the answers to Post #9.

Cionád

Solair wrote: »

Yeah, but with the new maps the BBC seems to assume that no weather occurs outside the UK borders. They used to put up symbols for the Republic of Ireland, Northern France, Belgium, the Netherlands etc but, they seem to have adopted a rather narrowly UK-focus now.

Shame really, as it does serve an educational purpose to point out that there are other countries near by with towns, cities and weather and everything!

Yeah, they also refer to the rest of the island as "to the south of northern ireland"