Centralisation was taking over when I left the Met. Office - the aim was to have all services provided out of (Bracknell) rather than locally. The worry was that they would end up quoting the model output, with minimal/no manual input or local knowledge, and nothing really value added. FCUK12 has at least indicated that the airfield forecasters still have a wealth of knowledge.
I certainly would not expect the situation to improve, and certainly I would expect to see a reduction in locally available value added information (to both the airfield and back to the Met. Office), and more generic stuff coming out of Exeter. That includes the military boys, if any of them are reading, and still have local forecasters!
I'm hoping that some of the current Met. Office people will correct me and tell me I'm wrong - I want to be wrong! Costcutting tells me I'm probably not wrong though.
Last edited by Metman; 22nd November 2004 at 16:05.