On Wednesday, December 3, 2014 11:33:56 AM UTC, wrote:

Gosh eraser and 4B pencil - those were the days, I went
through erasers incredibly quickly iirc :-)


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I seem to recall a frequent shortage of 4B pencils as well, because Ray Nurney (?) used to hoard them.

Graham Parker at London weather Centre, on the very first day of my career, told me that meteorology was a very "pencil and eraser" sort of profession.. Not so much now but I still love to get immersed analysing a chart, and encourage our newer forecasters to do the same - it'll be a dying art otherwise.

I still stop at Greenland, though...

Stephen.