Over my years in the tower, I never clashed with Met. They worked to their orders and parameters, issued the Actuals and Forecasts, and that was fine.
At Tengah, the Lightnings sometimes used to call inbound [at high level] on Local and ask what the weather actually looked like out of the window. They had very few options, and Butterworth was a long way away for a Lightning diversion. And the local weather could be VERY localised!*
* I drove around for over 2 years in a Sprite with no hood [rotted]. Only got wet once ... you just took a different route into town, or sat under a garage forecourt canopy for 10 minutes
