BBC weather forecasts

[dave50]

Why are pressure charts/isobars no longer shown on the BBC weather forecasts? They are useful as it gives an idea of the weather approaching the UK in the coming days. Is it because they think the general public is too thick to understand them? Some might be but I'm not.

[tonymclark]

You could try asking the Met Office...

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us

[redman41]

Everything is shown on this Map from Met Office.

http://www.metoffice....surface_pressure.html

[dave50]

Yes I know it is on the met office maps but the BBC used to show them before all the latest computer graphics. It's another case of 'dumbing down'.

[gingejbee]

...for the same reason they give temperatures in deg C AND F, rainfall in mm AND inches etc. Joe Public IS thick (and lazy).

[jno]

the real dumbing down is surely in getting them wrong so often. Accuweather.com is much more reliable

[douglas9401]

I agree jno, but they don't have Ms Tobin. :)

[Old_Geezer]

ºC/ºF, mm/" ? How is this being lazy ? It is merely polite and correct to give information in the form one has been used to for a lifetime. Although I suppose you might have a valid argument in implying that they could just give it in ºF and " and allow those who wish the other form to calculate it. But I still feel that's not reasonable, expecting young folk to have to make a calculation before they properly understand the given information.

[I.Don No]

the best weather forecast?......try looking out the window, works for me everytime!

[gingejbee]

OG; I presume that you have been used to prices in £.s.d. "for a lifetime" and you expect them to be expressed still in those units because you find it "polite and correct"?

[dave50]

Typical that the met office website should be called 'met office weather and climate change'. Why climate change? If i didnt know any better I would have thought they were a division of the BBC as they are also obsessed with climate change.