Met Office

Liz Trunsell here, part of the tactical support team.

I can confirm that we have just received very clear information from the Met Office to say this is a...

Hello,

hello, yes.

Dr Susan McCallum is a soft fruit geneticist and breeder at James Hutton.

Our Met Office readings were recording 136.8 hours of sunshine in Invergowrie in October, which is the highest since our records began in 1954.

Temperatures were pretty close to normal there, weren't they?

They weren't too bad.

So I just want to point them out to you.

This is how they're going to look on the surface weather charts from the Met Office.

You see the one just there, that line that's got sticks coming off it.

Looks a bit like a dead Christmas tree.

It's going to be a bit dank.

It's going to be a bit Scottish on Saturday, according to the Met Office.

So I...

Let's go for it.

And I said, right, I want to be a weather forecaster.

And then that day I phoned the Met Office and said, how do I become weather forecaster? What GCSEs, what A-levels, you know, what university, what course? And then it was just all mapped out for me.

And so to answer those questions, please, I mean, what attributes do you particularly need to be successful in this as a meteorologist?

So I think, first of all, you just need to care about the weather.

Yeah, I think so.

So I think as I went off, I did physics and meteorology at University of Reading.

I went to the Met Office when it moved from Bracknell to Exeter.

I did my training there.

Right, heavens above, Bobby really did a good job there.

So regarding you doing the weather, you say that the guys these days, again, please ignore my ignorance on this, but they're kind of Met Office people, so they know

what

they're doing, whereas you were a presenter, you weren't studying at the Met Office.

So was it you predicting the weather, or were you simply reporting other people's work as such? First of all, we went on a course

for at least two days.

was a small course.

Small course, yes.

Strong wind warning.

In Britain, the Met Office warning retriever at retreat's cut-off displayed no warnings for the listed days.

The statement applies for the page warning status, not the every possible local travel to marine hazard.

for india the latest detailed bulletin we could retrieve the issue 1146 pacific standard time november 1st and remember for forecast period ends in the 7 pm pacific standard time today's was include isolated heavy rains west across the parts of southern and central india the bulletin is order guidance we cannot verify whether the bulletin has replaced it so it's not a presenter that confirming current warnings current warnings details of africa and south america was not sufficiently verified for broadcast there's a briefing therefore a geographic gaps followed the lasting instructions from the meteorological and emergency authorities responsible for your location

Now, we in the UK, very unlikely to face this kind of persecution.

My wife Laura, she works at the Met Office, which makes her technically a civil servant, if she was in China, she couldn't go to church and do her job.

Nathan Johnson, our resident copper, he's never been asked to raid a house church, but if he was a member of the Iranian police, he would be.

Bob and Tabby, our pastors, they don't risk very much in their job, but being thrown in prison or being executed or put in labor camps is the real reality of many pastors worldwide today.