Steve Willington wrote:

For those looking to gain employment within forecasting or operational
meteorology WMO No. 258 is worth a look as it sets out guidelines for
education and training of meteorological personnel. MetO forecaster
recruitment for instance is aligned with these guidelines.

I also had to make a choice relatively early in my education to bias
towards maths and the sciences - OK if one knows what one wants to do
in future life at that age...

Steve.
www.rockbeareweather.co.uk


I decided at age 10 that I wanted to be a weather forecaster. I was helped
greatly by the fact that our geography teacher at secondary school had been a
weather forecaster during WW2. He taught us how to hand plot and analyse
surface charts - it wasn't in the curriculum but we enjoyed it. We did
geography as well as maths, physics and chemistry. Either geography or history
was compulsory even when following a maths/sciences path. As far as I know I'm
the only one of the class who ended up in a career in meteorology.


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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.