{"id":13038,"date":"2023-06-03T16:38:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T15:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=13038"},"modified":"2026-03-12T05:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T05:00:40","slug":"just-the-weather-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/06\/03\/just-the-weather-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Just the weather, thanks…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The only thing I see from the BBC these days is the 10-day weather, on a desktop PC. And even that’s becoming alarmist and naggy and click-baity, if it’s not filtered and blocked. Here’s how to clear all that guff off, in one go, and just leave yourself with what you came for… the likely weather plus sunset\/sunrise times. <\/p>\n

Just copy-paste my personal list of blocks into your Web browser’s uBlock Origin filter list (Icon | Dashboard (cog-wheel icon) | ‘My Filters’)…<\/p>\n


\n! Hide all the alarmist, political, nagging and video stuff on the 10-day BBC Weather forecast
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The result, clean and simple… <\/p>\n

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You’re welcome.<\/p>\n

What I can’t do anything about is this subtly depressive slight-of-hand. The worst possible weather for the day is always chosen to represent it on the main single-icon. The single-icon is thus usually deeply unrepresentative of the day’s likely weather…<\/p>\n

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A lovely day, effectively and falsely proclaimed to be “wet all day” by the main icon and description, just because of a few drops of rain at 4pm.<\/em><\/p>\n

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And here’s another example of how the BBC lies with its 10-day forecast. A beautiful Sunday, but the slight chance of a drop of rain at 4pm means the whole day is falsely labelled “Light rain”.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is not just misleading, it’s damaging the UK, with visitor attractions and some retail seeing up to a 30% drop in people if “rain” is apparently forecast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The only thing I see from the BBC these days is the 10-day weather, on a desktop PC. And even that’s becoming alarmist and naggy and click-baity, if it’s not filtered and blocked. Here’s how to clear all that guff off, in one go, and just leave yourself with what you came for… the likely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18896,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13038\/revisions\/18896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}