There is a huge difference between here in the UK and in the USA.
CAA/NATS seem to have gone down a route of screening out weather completely, whereas in the States, the en route controllers regularly advise you of precipitation ahead and give very good range and bearing info. When you get into the TMA, I never even think about weather in the States because the controllers are slick enough to vector you around what they can see on their screens.
In the UK, they seem oblivious to what is around and regularly ask you to point directly toward a cb.
Not the controller's fault - I believe it is the equipment.
Now, if we can stop the Americans from bleating about turbulence and ride reports all the time, we can have a quiet flight - that is the pilots, not the controllers
