In message , Dave Ludlow
writes
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:26:23 +0100, "Philip Eden"
philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:

The one I feel sorry for is the chap who was chief forecaster
at Bracknell on the 15th and who was responsible
(with others) for the guidance supplied to Giles, Fish, and
co,

including the chap who did the midnight forecast on R4
whose name for the moment escapes me...

Hmmm... are you _sure_ his name escapes you?

I listened to that midnight R4 forecast (it was possibly at the end of
the midnight news bulletin, about 0025?) and the cat was well and
truly out of the bag by then.

That midnight forecaster (well known to us in here) was only too well
aware of what was to follow, he reported a 100 mph gust that had just
occurred in the Channel Islands and I am pretty sure that he gave an
accurate forecast of the timescale of the coming carnage - including
the time it would hit London. A lot changed between the 9pm and
midnight forecasts!

Although i was safe and sound in South Cheshire at the time, it
prompted me to stay up for the entire nightand the following morning,
listening to radio and watching TV. It was quite a night, even from
afar!

Well it certainly escapes me because it was, to my knowledge , never
released. The directorate hid for 3 days while a junior friend of mine
(Robert Lines I think) was left to handle the hysterical media.
Such is life.
Cheers
Paul
--
'Wisest are they that know they do not know.' Socrates.
Paul Bartlett FRMetS
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