Hi Scott.. The bean-counters took over in the UK many moons ago! Heathrow Airport does not, so far as I know, have any professional Met people on site. When I first went there back in '72 there were dedicated Met Observers and a full forecasting office vailable H24, but not any more so that very valuable "loacl knowledge" has been lost forever. So far as I know, no UK civil airport has dedicated forecasting staff any more although I believe that RAF stations still do. UK Civil ATC Centres have never had weather staff so far as I know.. Met observations at many UK airports are carried out by already over-stretched ATC staff. It's a totally ludicrous situation, but that's life....