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Changes to BBC Weather site

Richard Chapman Richard Chapman — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:08:23 +0000

Since the launch of the new-look weather site back in February, we have continued to develop, and we have moved content from the old site.

Most recently, we added the Monthly Outlook to our UK Forecast page. We've also made improvements behind the scenes to make the site quicker to load and even more reliable.

The next release of improvements, coming soon, will be visibly more noticeable than others we've made since February.

These are part of our continuing effort to make the site clearer and easier to use, whether you use the site to get a quick snapshot of the current forecast or want more detailed information about the weather conditions.

Following feedback from our audiences, and ideas from our weather team, we have made it easier to "Find a Forecast" when you arrive and easier to scan the 24-hour and five-day forecasts to see the weather trend over the coming hours or days.

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Cold weather and a new look online

Richard Chapman Richard Chapman — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:30:27 +0000

Without wishing to fall into cliche mode February 2009 will always be remembered by the BBC Weather team as a month of two halves.

Richard Chapman is Editorial Manager, BBC Weather.

New BBC weather site launched

Richard Chapman Richard Chapman — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:22:43 +0000

As I commented on this blog yesterday, like many other commuters I too have had to endure this week's snowfall. While we can't improve the British weather, we have now done everything we can to improve your BBC weather website.

BBC Weather has always used developments in technology to improve the quality of its output, dovetailing improvements in forecasting techniques with new and emerging broadcast platforms.

On my first day at the BBC Weather Centre the output was focused mainly on forecasts on television. Today the Weather Centre is a fully multi-media operation with over 100 broadcasts a day, presented by a weather team of 22, on TV, radio, online and the red button.

It wasn't until 1998 that the first version of the weather website went live, and it was a very different looking site from the version that is available from today. We have had a couple of site refreshes over the last decade but nothing on the scale of today's offering.

Richard Chapman is editorial manager of BBC weather.

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