Freddie wrote:

On Monday, 21 December 2020 at 12:23:25 UTC, Nigel Paice wrote:
1200Z: 24021KT 0300M Fog 8ST000 11.6/11.6 QFF 1005.4 rising slowly
SYNOP: 11003 82421 10116 20116 40054 52002 60031 74465 886// 333 88700
90710 91128=
I see you're experiencing what we used to call "40 knot fog" :-)

Very early in my career, in the early 1960s at Prestwick Airport, we were the
collecting centre for many of the Scottish SYNOPs. On one occasion I took a
telephone call from someone at Bracknell who was complaining that Lerwick was
reporting fog with a strong wind blowing. He said that wasn't possible. I said
that I would pass his comment on to the observer. I duly called the Lerwick
observer who replied along the lines of

"If that pompous prat wants to come up here and do the f***ing OBS himself
he is more than welcome".

I remember taking great pleasure in passing on the reply verbtim.

Happy days!

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
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