TAFs grounded until March.
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TAFs grounded until March.
While Covid is an issue across most of Australia, it’s a convenient excuse now the effects of the BoM’s extensive cost cutting over the past few years has been revealed.
The BoM should have planned for staffing issues due to Covid many months ago…
The BoM should have planned for staffing issues due to Covid many months ago…
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I thought this was going to be about serious lockdown flight restrictions in Wales!
Just what the top end needs through the worst of the wet season! Serious question though, as I'm definitely not a meteorologist- what's involved in the issue of a TAF that can't be done remotely with a decent laptop and the right login? Most people unavailable to work are not sick, just isolating.
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Just what the top end needs through the worst of the wet season! Serious question though, as I'm definitely not a meteorologist- what's involved in the issue of a TAF that can't be done remotely with a decent laptop and the right login? Most people unavailable to work are not sick, just isolating.
This service reduction is due to lack of staff currently able to work.
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Maybe the forecasting tools/desk-stations used by the meteorologists don't translate themselves well to a domestic environment. Didn't the Oz PM overrule the states and kept isolation at 7 days.
