Journalists usually have a work phone and personal phone.
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iPad?
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Apologies for the quick iPhone photo.
There seems to be a consistent problem with the 7-day forecast on the NQ bulletin.
Every single night, the last day on the forecast shows a rain icon on both the Townsville and Burdekin forecast, regardless of the actual percent chance of rain.
You can see here, thereâs a 0% chance of rain on Friday, and the BOM forecast is âMostly sunnyâ, yet hereâs the rain icon again
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The forecast of the seventh day that far out is reliably wrong. They could have anything there and it wouldnât matter. 
Nickâs headed down to the Gold Coast bureau it seems. Obviously a few reporter shuffles happening with a couple headed to Brisbane of late.
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But thatâs not the point. What iâm saying is, thereâs clearly something wrong with whatever system they use to generate the weather graphics.
The first 6 days icons all correctly follow the BOM forecast, but the 7th day is ALWAYS a rain icon, despite the BOM not actually forecasting this.
Somewhere, the icon for the 7th day has been set as Rain, and its not even been corrected.
Itâs literraly saying 0% chance of rain. The rain icon is pointing out what the 0% chance is. If the whole week was 0% chance of rain and it was a blank box, you wouldnât know what it meant.
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So in your screenshot, Tuesday in Brisbane has a 0% chance of sun?
A Rain icon with 0% on it says âthereâs no chance of rainâ
The problem is not the bottom icon, itâs the top one.
If there is no chance of rain why does the icon for the day at the top show it raining?
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It could be rounded down to the nearest 5%, though yes, it still shouldnât depict a rainy icon.
My scale would be
More than 75% chance of rain = rainy icon with dark clouds and no sun
50-75% chance: As above but with white rain clouds
25-50% chance: Sunny icon with single white rain cloud
Less than 25% chance: Sunny icon with no clouds.
Or if cloudy with low chance of rain, cloudy icons with no rain symbol.
Add lightning bolt if there is greater than 50% chance of storm in any case.
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If itâs always showing the rain icon then yes, thereâs a fault there. Iâm not sure how automatic they are but the BoM forecasts send out an icon code in their XML feeds with the forecasts to indicate which icon number they are using. Itâs possible if these tables for broadcast are programmed in which would make things easier that for some reason itâs not looking for the correct icon code and has been hard coded for the rain icon or the wrong region since itâs the Nine News Regional bulletin with however many different forecasts provided.
If theyâre able to get those tables dynamically it would make things much easier, set the location, top line is the day, then icon, max forecast temp, min forecast temp and then % chance of precipitation which are all in the XML files along with precis forecasts etcâŚ
Having a look at Burdekin XML file for that day, the icon code should be the same as the one for Saturday and Sunday. (1)
ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/gen/fwo/IDQ11295.xml
Luke Dufficy presenting tonightâs sport for NSW/ACT
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Since NBN Newsâ Gavin Morris presents the weather in Southern NSW, is that shown in HD there like the other studio segments are? Since none of NBN News up here is HD.
I wouldnât have thought so⌠?
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Nine News Central West:
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Told you that they woud like him. 
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A nightmare for the Illawarra crew today with their news vehicle dying on the highway near Kiama, requiring towing. Due to their small fleet, the crews ended up carpooling.
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