I do hope the Met staff at Finningley were not obnoxious ...................
I WAS THERE, deputy to the SMetO !
We had a marvellous team under a great boss, Mac Cameron, and the ethos was most certainly that we were there to serve the customer to the best of our ability.
OC Flying / Ops? once caught me having a charp in a snowstorm but, as he pointed out, it had indeed been properly and accurately forecast, warnings issued and after that it was up to the client to shovel snow!