IABU to think that the weather doesnt end or start in the SOUTHEAST.

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We have had lovely weather today. But you wouldn't know it based on the BBC weather. AMBU to say that weather is not the preserve of London and the SE?

BTW, I am in the NW, lovely, sunny, dry and not windy.

just watch your local forecast. It's not hard.

if you switch to the non-HD broadcast in time of course, because despite paying the same licence fee as everywhere else here in the cheap seats we don't get HD for local programmes. And the blasted box keeps wanting to switch back to HD whenever available.

Why not just have local ones then, if the "national" one is basically for those in the South East?

The national weather has pissed me off for years. According to the National Weather the centre of the universe is London. They kind of give the impression that the rest of the nation are just sad little cling ons that are not worthy of a decent forecast.

The national weather never covers Essex properly either, we have to go local if we want any level of detail.

I think perhaps that we expect to much from a 2 minute long national weather forecast.

The other thing of course, further to onehandflapping's point, is that the sheer number of people in the South means that a couple of flakes of snow results in instant gridlock, particularly in rush hour in London. The traffic there is that intense.
Same applies to the whinges about Heathrow closing when airports in Northern Canada carry on in blizzards. There are hundreds and hundreds of planes trying to load/unload at LHR in a quick turnaround and use the runways there. There is no "give" in the system, whereas in Canada they might get one or two planes an hour and can defrost them by hand with hairdryers and hand-towels if they like.

I have precisely this irate and sweary argument with Radio 4 every morning! I live in Mid Wales and we're lucky to get even a cursory 'South West and Wales' mention... Mind you, when I worked for BT Directory Enquiries back when dinosaurs roamed the earth I remember people would scream and cry hysterically down the line if there was a power cut in London, so maybe they need it more, bless them

BBC weather tonight hasn't even mentioned the South East, apart from to mention a possible high of 18 on Thursday (which is unusual in mid-October). Talked about the north of Scotland and South Wales, the far South West, with a quick mention of "eastern areas."
Very general and fair, actually.

They've obviously been reading this thread clam

6 million people in Scotland and it's massive compared to the area of the M25. They did try to make Scotland smaller a few years ago, by "tilting" the map, to make the South appear bigger.
Also remember a couple of winters' ago, the Met Office didn't seem to think we deserved a weather warning for the first day of some mental 80+ mile an hour winds.

Just get an iPhone or smartphone and you can check your local weather hourly. I haven't watched or accessed a weather website in yonks. All I need is my trusty phone.

Here is the netweather forecast for tomorrow.
And the southeast is where?

Wind and rain spreading northeast across most areas today, followed by drier and brighter conditions this afternoon towards the southwest. Sunshine & showers tomorrow and warmer too. Cloudy, damp and colder for Scotland. Continuing unsettled into the weekend.

Wow I don't know what weather you lot are watching but the national weather here always, but ALWAYS, starts in Scotland and then gradually works it's way down. They certainly don't talk more about the weather here than anywhere else and it's never 'London' weather (except the local weather when you're in London), it's the SE which covers a huge area. I don't live in London btw but do live in the SE in an area that has it's own micro climate so general weather reports are usually meaningless.

Seriously, some people will moan about anything.

I think you people in Scotland should be seriously worried. If you decide to leave the UK we won't let you have any of our weather at all.

And and and and .... When the weather person is stood in front of the interactive map thingy, their shoulder is always over my neck if the woods... Or it whips past it.

Cheshire btw.

Also ( on a roll now) always pisses oh off when BBC don't say much about Stoke city football team when they have played... If stoke win it's cos the other side were poor etc etc etc

YABVU - EVERYTHING starts and ends in the south-east. Everywhere north of Enfield is barbarian country.

LegoCaltrops - our 6 weeks of snow wasn't national news because we just got on with it

Unlike the "dear god it is an APOLOCALYPSE" type news items you get when there is approximately 0.5cm of slush in London

We are just so much more important in the South East
the rest of you don't deserve weather.

YANBU. Due to the prevailing winds, weather actually does usually start in the South West. Quite often, most of it has run out by the time it gets to the rest of the country. I have it on good authority that Hull has no weather at all

It was torrential rain and high winds here in Wales all morning - not a peep about it on the radio. Then it shifted over to the SE and it was as if they were having bloody twisters and tsunamis... Not stop gabbing about the terrible weather.. Awful, just awful - grow some balls ffs - it was only rain and wind. Are people in the SE afraid they may melt in the rain??

Haha. Maybe some people are just 'made of sugar' (DH's favourite phrase when people overreact to a few drops of rain.

And yes, we are all barbarians here in the north. I have a Viking DH to prove it!

always pisses oh off when BBC don't say much about Stoke city football team when they have played... If stoke win it's cos the other side were poor etc etc etc

Electrical - you try supporting West Brom....! The only way we get a mention is if we've beaten someone like Man U - and then it's only because of the 'shock'...
If we're on Match of the Day that'll be the day it's blink and you'll miss us

I'm in the North West and the zooming weather map nips from Wales to Northern Ireland, then back into Scotland missing us off completely most of the time.

I tend to just stick my head out of the door to determine the weather.