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The art of the weather report

By Thomas Sutcliffe

Published: 20 May 2005

It took me a couple of days to pin it down, but I've finally identified the nagging sense of déjà vu I felt whenever I looked at the BBC's new 3D graphics for the weather report.

It took me a couple of days to pin it down, but I've finally identified the nagging sense of déjà vu I felt whenever I looked at the BBC's new 3D graphics for the weather report. What was it about the dun expanse of the national outline that looked so familiar? It had something to do with the contrast between the overcast sections and those notionally bathed in sunlight, I knew that much, and the papery sheen of the highlighted terrain was also naggingly reminiscent of something I'd seen in nature.

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