Thanks for the info about where the forecasters are located. I had been taught and believed that if there was a trend function then there was literally a meteorologist on the ground at that port.
BOM forecasts are all done out of a city highrise building in MEL and BNE these days, thats only if the forcaster isn't working from home.
Please tell me you are joking about the ‘working from home’?
I can see the next accident report “ The failure to divert earlier can be traced to the failure to update the forecast which in turn was due to distraction. The primary cause of the distraction being an argument the forecaster was having with their seven year old about how much Nintendo Switch time was appropriate while off school sick.”