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Old January 11th 11, 09:25 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
Richard Dixon Richard Dixon is offline
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Default Sir Rob Mcelwee last forecast tonight...

On Jan 11, 12:31*am, Alan Greig wrote:

I have been listening to Rob for some time. A Cloudy Language features
the words of several weather forecasters and was originally inspired by
ITV presenter Si n Lloyd's pronouncement that "Tomorrow we'll be
speaking mainly a cloudy language." But Rob has always been the master.


He was idiosyncratic and despite slowly morphing into a cross between
a badger and Prince Charles, really should be considered to continue.
Not quite sure how team-related skills are correlated with ability to
present a forecast per comments above. Bill Giles was apparently a
nasty piece of work as a manager of the team and still turned out a
good forecast.

If I wanted to keep, say, 5 forecasters it would probably be McElwee,
Gibbs, Avery, Betts and Willetts - in no particular order (although I
think Peter Gibbs is the best of the lot).

Richard