On Monday, 13 February 2017 08:42:15 UTC, Crusader wrote:
Looking at the T+72 chart issued in the early hours of today and seeing the occluded front going apparently backwards across Scandinavia, makes me wonder how low the knowledge has to get before the MO do some decent training.

Add to that the incessant use of occluded fronts on the BBC forecast with the warm bumps and cold triangles drawn the wrong way around....I think that standards are definitely not important any more.

I wonder if these standards reflect the quality of other aspects, such as the observations and models as these new forecasters go up the chain over the past few years?
Certainly the apparent quality and accuracy of output that is given as public service forecasts has dropped significantly.

I fear for the future of MO forecasting.

It was possibly something to do with this one it has been erupting since then I think:
http://siberiantimes.com/other/other...-in-kamchatka/