New RTE weather presentation graphics

lertsnim

They've marked Waterford in the wrong place unless they are showing us where the county is which they're more than likely not.

50HX

Is it not just a slightly more graphic version of the forecast rain model you can run on the website preceeded by the Atlantic chart model run?

The way they were selling this yesterday morning on radio I thought it was going to be something spectacular

Sammy2012

Why are the temperature colours so bright?

rdser

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058419547/new-rte-weather-presentation-graphics

This was all over the media yesterday…how its considered news is beyond me. Its the weather forecast FFS.

hawkwing

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123636329#Comment_123636329

Probably a George Lee climate change influence to frighten us as RTE do at every chance.

Sammy2012

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123636335#Comment_123636335

I was thinking that. Ridiculous

squonk

They need to add a minute if they’re now going to highlight regional weather too. They’ve grown the format but not expanded the time allotted. 2 minutes was fine when a lad was pointing to one of 4 charts stuck on a wall with blue tack as was the case back in the early 80s. Even with updates there was time for the meteorologist to have a quick sidebar if something interesting was happening. Now the regional forecasts are filling up that time and there’s time being lost elsewhere. Since yesterday we’ve got blink and you’ll miss it charts and something that feels like a mess. Maybe ditch the girl climbing up King John’s castle and use the time for an expanded forecast instead. As an aside, why you’d ever let someone make a business out of a sailing up a historical building baffles me anyway.

Comhrá

I think the provincial forecasts are a bit superfluous.

Ireland is small enough that one overview is sufficient for the entire country with a brief mention of any potentially significant weather that may be specific to a particular region.

RoTelly

TG4 from 2002

https://videopress.com/v/ZhULqRsh

2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbY1R1xfwio

https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/categories/news-stories/play/?pid=6375649187112&title=An%20Aimsir%20L%C3%A1ithreach&series=An%20Aimsir%20L%C3%A1ithreach&genre=Cursai%20Reatha&pcode=743917

And I am sure VMTV have being doing similar for years

JanuarySnowstor

Mark Bowe was promoting this on radio last week as something really special.

Ah stop it's average at best, you'd need a magnifier to see the temps...

Comhrá

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123652276#Comment_123652276

Agreed. Very little that we've not seen on other channels. Plus the removal of the of warm & cold fronts on the Atlantic map is a pity.

Another example of dumbing down?

Montage of Feck

If I want the weather dumped down there's vm media and if I want pretty graphics there's TG4. It has fine the way it was.

xhomelezz

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123632892#Comment_123632892

You can blame me on the top of that too. Started my holidays last weekend and since then it's dark rainy days here...😁

Hailtothethief

Watched the forecast this evening. Nice to see Newfoundland on the met chart.

What relevance it has to our weather through is an interesting question.

Still a massive step backwards

Larbre34

The animations move far too fast and the flit around the provinces is completely feckin unnecessary for a country as small as Ireland.

Just give me a 2D plan view map and a slow moving precip forecast animation, and a second image with temperatures and wind direction.

pauldry

Ya there is potential there. Hope theyr just testing it before making the necessary improvements. They showed Connaught and Munster for 2 seconds each on tonites forecast. On BBC it's all so professional and here it's a mad rush

Dazler97

I like the new graphics

Comhrá

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123655192#Comment_123655192

They're grand but I'd like if they restored the detail to those Atlantic charts… warm & cold fronts, occlusions and pressure values.

Dazler97

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123655372#Comment_123655372

Yes absolutely 💯 I'll write an email to them and see if it goes anywhere 😊

Comhrá

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123655372#Comment_123655372

Someone must have been reading this. Michelle had the fronts & pressure values illustrated on tonight's forecast just now. 🙂

pauldry

She didn't have the continous mist in Sligo there though just scattered light showers. It's been misting continously for 9 hours now.

Oscar Bravo

Whatever about the graphics once I see Mark Bowe come its time to switch off, head to the various models and do me own forecast. Hes as bad as they get .

Storm 10

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123657656#Comment_123657656

They just fly through them it's too fast will they ever learn, and as for all the towns they name then flying through the Counties its ridiculous .

Comhrá

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123658053#Comment_123658053

Agreed. The town names pasted up in those annoying white rectangles are really distracting, as well as cluttering the map and hiding relevant details.

Too much unnecessary content crammed into the two mins, forcing the presenters to race through the forecast. The provinces fly-over is total overkill.

spookwoman

They didn't really sit down and think about the people looking at this especially the city and town names text. I've noticed the South East is often obscured by the text graphics, the words Waterford cover Wexford south coast and the Suir Estuary. There is a change in climate from halfway between Dungarvan and Waterford and it then changes again at the estuary. Just on the other side is where the mini tornadoes have been happening and the spot flooding at New Ross. On the close up The ribbon saying the day blocks the South East again. Someone else pointed out Waterford is in the wrong place, Carrick in Donegal is also in the wrong place.

bloopy

They are going through the forecast too quickly. I know they want to fit in the regional.forecasts, but it is pointless if you dont extend the time allotted.

They're tearing around the country like a sprinter at the moment.

tradfan1

The delivery feels much more rushed - as if they have a time limit. The inclusion of Castletroy seems quite random…

Storm 10

Just watched now again and I do not like it the clouds flying through the provinces is off putting again no fronts just the stupid cloud pattern and the silly large name places on the map mean nothing.

squonk

I’m in north Clare and I noticed we don’t get any town names printed. Infect judging by the way they split the country on the closeups, we actually are shown nite prominently in Connaught than in the Munster chart but we’re not in Connaught officially so no place names. Since Michelle is a Clare woman you’d think sorting like that mightn’t have fallen through the cracks.

The speed is ridiculous. Time to cut the regional summaries or add on 90 seconds if they want to keep them. It’s too rushed now and there’s no room for commentary on anything in particular that isn’t directly related to the bare bones of the forecast. . I wonder how all this would hold up in the face of another Ophelia or Emma?

Luckycharms_74

The colour for the temps are way out of whack. Comparing RTE to UK Met is totally different, on RTE it looks like the UK is gonna melt from the heat and on the UK visuals it shows about mid 20's.

https://i.imgur.com/QL2jO7r.jpeg