Will Hand wrote:


I think to be a *real* Met man it has to be in the blood. You have to get
excited by ana fronts, blizzards, baroclinic zones, high potential vorticity,
jet streams, tornadoes, 0.1 mm of drizzle, fog etc etc. I started when I was 14
and I could code up a tephigram and work out cloud bases when I was 15, never
wanted to do anything else. You have to get up in the middle of the night at the
slightest hint of lightning or thunder, you have to gaze hours on end at a lamp
post or the velux window waiting for that first raindrop to turn to snow, you
have to look at the GFS T+384 on *every* run even though you know its going to
be wrong, you get out of bed and your first thought is what the min. was last
night or where the front has got to .... and .... you have to have a thick skin
and a sense of humour.

Will
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Oh Dear, what time does your surgery open Will ;-)

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Keith (Southend)
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