No idea of their names, but the met men at Palermo were real comedians. For a start they were at a disadvantage being in the only office in the ATC tower with no windows and they would swear blind that there was no rain today, even though you were standing in front of the dripping wet. Their enthusiasm for the notion that all things in Sicily were good filtered through to the approach controllers. One of our rules was that we had to have radar monitoring. But Palermo ATC frequently had other ideas and would reply to a request for radar vectoring with, "Itsa nisa day. Radar, ees switched off".