The New ITV & BBC Weather Thread

I'd imagine there's a fixed width version for numbers at least, though maybe it's not available as a web font

You'd need it for things like clocks to stop the numbers appearing to jump around due to different width characters.

The version for download on the BBC website doesn't have the issue, and on other web pages the numbers are equally spaced to stop this, it's only the Weather page that suffers from this.

On many clocks, scoreboards etc. you see on TV these days have the numbers jumping around, especially when there's 1's involved.

By default it uses Tabular figures, but it supports OpenType proportional ones, using a stylistic set

I noticed tonight that the Weather from Granada has Whaley Bridge added onto the map - which is a nice touch!

They normally label somewhere in the Peak District, don't they? (Buxton or Glossop, possibly?)

I presume that Whaley Bridge was instead of that?

Helen Plint even put it on the map on the Sunday evening forecast for Central West.

It's fairly common to put locations relevant to news stories on weather maps isn't it? Certainly I've seen BBC London do it

Granada certainly used to put fairly random place names on their map rather than the bigger towns and cities.

Yorkshire and Tyne Tees in the late 90s and early 00s often used to pick two places with an amusing connection. Hilderthorpe and Ogden as an example springs to mind.

And the Bob Johnson forecasts for Tyne Tees had the anagram and the initials of the places spelling things out.

It’s frightening to believe but the current ITV Weather graphics have been in use for three years next month.

I still find them much better and clearer that the BBC’s graphics. I guess they won’t change too much until an ITV News revamp... if and when that will ever happen.