On 18 June, 21:32, "Norman" wrote:

Some years ago the then head of the Met Office College told me that, in
general, *in his experience there was an inverse relationship between the level
of academic qualifications and the natural ability to perform as an operational
forecaster.

For me, enthusiasm gets you as far as intelligence when it comes to
getting "qualifications". Certainly did in my case.

Would be interesting to know if said head of MO college had any
qualifications to start off with. I work in a company where PhDs meet
head on with barrow-boys and there's much snobbery/inverted snobbery
towards the qualified/non-qualified from the non-qualified/qualified
which always fascinates me.

Richard