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Old 10th Feb 2013, 21:34
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langleybaston
 
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Certainly until 1996 [when my crystal ball, fir cone, seaweed and pass were impounded] the Met Office never added other than:

BLU WHT GRN YLO AMB RED to any actual or forecast.

BLK was an ATC/OPS prerogataive.

YLO was never subdivided.

"The Board" in NATO was not subject to national [met] variations, only military interpretations.

"The Board" at JHQ Rheindahlen was started a year before my arrival as a rostered senior forecaster in 1980. Lads were still p*ssing themselves a year later. The PMeto had decreed a "Colour Board" in ther office, maintained by assistant number 1.
PMetO ordered buttons, coloured, magnetic, r a y g w b. Also board, metal. Map, NATO NW Europe. Fablon. Adhesive.

This was duly botched up and the grand unveiling. Neither r, o, y, g, w, or b adhered to fablon on map on board.

PMetO "its an inverse square law, fablon/ map/ adhesive too thick!"

Duly adjusted.

r,a,y,g,w and b still bit the dust.

"Sir, what's the board made of?"

"Aluminium alloy of course"

PMetO replaced very soon after, as was board.

When I arrived they were still larfing.

Best thing since sliced bread thereafter.

"David, were you expecting reds in Denmark?"

Sh1t!
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