@Carnelian posted:My Freeview reception has been awful over the Xmas week. The transmitter info page suggested no issues. It has cleared up quite a lot today but Xmas day and Boxing day were hopeless. Usually, it's better in winter than in summer but I've put it down the cold weather and whatever atmospherics that might have caused.
Funnily enough, I had another outage yesterday afternoon (New Year's Day), though thankfully this time it was fairly short (<30mins).
When Freeview first started I had a lot of problems as I live close to the borders of 3 different TV regions and reception from all of them was fairly weak. Things have improved enormously since then, however, and one of the main reasons the recent reception losses have taken me by surprise is that I'm struggling to remember the last time I had one. Also, previous outages were usually in the small hours of the morning, so were most likely due to scheduled engineering work. I think you may be right about atmospherics, though...