Originally Posted by
langleybaston
...... Effing George ....... Topcliffe, a legend in his own lunch time, shocked even his colleagues with his expletives. One per sentence minimum. ......
Dan Suri was one of the forecasters who did a season (or two?) at the British Antarctic Survey base at Rothera. His morning briefings to the Air Unit were similar, for being filled with expletives.
In the Falklands, the weather forecast read out on the local radio always includes the forecaster’s name. Jim Elliott was a regular on the met team at Mount Pleasant during the 80s and 90s, and when you heard his name along with the forecast, you could be pretty sure that was what you were going to get. Guess it helped that he had spent a lot of time in the Falklands right back to the 1960s, and was married to a Falkland Islander, so had a good knowledge of local effects.