I've been throwing out some old documents on weather which have gathered
too much dust for my liking, and came across some notes I had made about
the Bartlett Brothers.

They were interested in weather forecasting and started up in 1934, so
the notes say. At the time there was a need for some simple kind of
weather forecasting, so they called themselves Professional Weather
Consultants and Long-range Weather Specialists in 1935.

After the war, they opened a Weather Exhibition for the general public
between 1946 and 1947.

The method they appeared to use was to consult thousands of charts to
see what type of weather usually occurred during the period of a week.
(I would call that finding the 'average weather' for the period).
Then there were the 'unusual weeks' in which the pendulum of weather
swung away from the average weather. I'm not clear how they decided
whether the forecast-week was to have 'average' or 'unusual' weather.
And if I remember rightly, they didn't explain how they made this
decision.

We shouldn't forget that this was a time of simple metorology. The
brothers, D. and K. Bartlett, were probably among the first weather
consultants in Britain, and because of this, enjoyed a good amount of
patronage from the press, leaders of industry, members of the
services and politicians.

Bartlett? Bartlett?. doesn't that name ring a bell somewhere?

Cheers, Keith