Langley, I remember listening to those forecasts on BFPS. I also remember how poor the winter weather could be on the North German Plain, for weeks at a time……
I once arrived at an exercise deployment field location on top of a low hill, in very poor visibility and cold low cloud only to be told almost immediately by a certain flight commander to get airborne again and do a local area weather check! I told him that without getting airborne again that the weather was barely flyable and was getting worse.
A squadron colleague of mine then volunteered to do an airborne check, making me look a bit stupid and in an obvious attempt to elevate the Boss’s opinion of him. He took off, lifted to the hover and almost immediately disappeared into very low cloud. He had to climb to Safety Altitude and divert to Gutersloh and was unable to get back to the field site for 36 hours! I didn’t look quite so stupid then, at least in the eyes of said Flt. Cdr.