In article , 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.

When I was instructing at Shinfield Park (the Met. Office College) it was
widely agreed that if you wanted to take the graduates on the long course
down a peg, you set them exam. questions with numerical answers. Amazing how
errors of a factor of 100 rarely seemed to ring any alarm bells.

--
Rodney Blackall (retired meteorologist)(BSc, FRMetS)
Buckingham, ENGLAND
Using Acorn SA-RPC, OS 4.02 with ANT INS and Pluto 3.03j