{"id":1803,"date":"2017-03-20T20:17:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T19:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2017-03-20T20:27:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T19:27:29","slug":"bbc-weather-maps-of-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/?p=1803","title":{"rendered":"BBC Weather Maps of UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of us who live in Scotland have become increasingly worried about the way in which Scotland is shrinking. What could be causing it?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Global warming perhaps?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Has the earth titled on its axis recently?<\/li>\n<li>Are the Russians the culprits?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Could it be the BBC a fault? Surely not.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To see what I mean, here is a photo &#8211; a photo, not a map &#8211; of the UK taken from the ISS, the &nbsp;(International Space Station)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1805\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1805\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1805 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Britain-seen-from-ISS-005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Britain-seen-from-ISS-005.jpg 400w, https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Britain-seen-from-ISS-005-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Britain-seen-from-ISS-005-370x463.jpg 370w, https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Britain-seen-from-ISS-005-270x338.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from the window of the International Space Station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And here is a BBC weather map of the UK. Sorry Ireland, I took you out of the picture just to keep things simple.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1806\" style=\"width: 439px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1806\" src=\"http:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bbc-weather-fill.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"439\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bbc-weather-fill.png 833w, https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bbc-weather-fill-230x300.png 230w, https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bbc-weather-fill-768x1001.png 768w, https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bbc-weather-fill-785x1024.png 785w, https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bbc-weather-fill-370x482.png 370w, https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bbc-weather-fill-270x352.png 270w, https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bbc-weather-fill-740x965.png 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BBC map which I&#8217;ve simplified by deleting Ireland&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And here they are again superimposed. I&#8217;ve kept the BBC map in its original proportions but aligned it so that it completely matches ISS photo of the south coast of England.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1804\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1804\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1804 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BBC_ISS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BBC_ISS.jpg 400w, https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BBC_ISS-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BBC_ISS-370x463.jpg 370w, https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BBC_ISS-270x338.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ISS &amp; BBC comparison<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As the Broons would say, Michty Me!! the BBC&#8217;s Orkney islands are only as far north as Crieff!! Now I know that BBC show maps that include an allowance for the curvature of the earth which means they have a fore-shortening effect as you look north. But crivens, the curvature effect isn&#8217;t as big as this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of us who live in Scotland have become increasingly worried about the way in which Scotland is shrinking. What could be causing it? Global warming perhaps?&nbsp; Has the earth titled on its axis recently? Are the Russians the culprits?&nbsp; Could it be the BBC a fault? Surely not.&nbsp; To see what I mean, here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[99,30],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","hentry","category-indyref2","tag-bbc","tag-scottish-independence","post_format-post-format-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}