"Andrew Bond" wrote in message
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"AliCat" wrote in message
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conditions, or some PFY with a half baked degree,
100's of miles away, who's knowledge of
meteorology doesn't go much beyond that which the
latest model run shows.

Steve,

That is in fact slander and could have legal implications. What proof do
you
have that forecasters at the Aberdeen office have "half baked degrees"?

A

Trying to work out whether you are being ironic or not Andrew, or just
joking? IHVHO quite a lot of forecasters that come onto the Met Office
forecaster training program are not up to standard, and that is bourne out
by how many subsequently leave because of the rigours of the job. Fancy
headlines and polar bear pictures on websites are one thing, but aviation
forecasting for pilots at a Met Office outstation is something rather
different.

Who mentioned Aberdeen anyroad? I'd far rather trust a forecaster that
not only combines his/her own knowledge, but those of model outouts, rather
than one that simply extrapolates models with little weather knowledge of
what they are looking at!