Originally Posted by
langleybaston
Its the Anticyclops you need to watch out for.
My best Met story was told by a pilot as advice to sort out his nav.
The way he told it, if you were lost:
1. Find out where the Low is.
2. Stand with back to wind.
3. Deduce which hemisphere you are in.
Regarding garish ties and waistcoats, the current trophy holder is probably Eric Buckley, currently or recently SMeto Coningsby.
As an afterthought, in my time, we had amongst us a
Mr Flood
Mr Frost
Mr Gale
Mr Waterfall
and Mr Snow.
Not many appropriate surnames for aircrew ...... Mr Thrust I suppose, Mr Gear, Mrs Flap ...........
Yes, I know/worked with some of those, and since then we had Mr Rainbow too.
Did you know that Mr Gale's initials were I.C. ?
I worked with Eric Buckley when he was SMetO Coningsby, now retired along with the rest of us older school "Met Guessers".
The Met folk are mostly female graduates or sensitive males now, having entered a period of positive discrimination to change the demographic since the Blair Government days.
The Meteorology aspects are now gone, with just the computer observing and number analysis remaining.
I'm afraid, like with the military, the days of traditional duty are now gone, replaced with blandness and fast staff turnovers, targets and performance indicators, insular characters and uninterested clones.
I was lucky to see the things I have when I saw them, luckier still to be out of it now.
Watch your six!