Making The Weather Work For You

MAKING THE WEATHER WORK FOR YOU The past 10 years or so have seen what are probably the greatest advances ever in weather forecasting. Certainly they are the greatest in terms of potential value of forecasts to commerce and industry. by Dr John Houghton, Director-General and David Houghton, Marketing Director, UK Meteorological Office, Bracknell First to appreciate how big are the benefits from better weather forecasts have been the world"s airlines, tradition- ally the customers who work most closely with the meteorologists. This was highlighted last year when a team of scientists from the UK Meteorological Office received the prestigious Royal Society ESSO Energy Award, in recog- nition of their pioneering contribution to energy saving through developing the world"s best operational weather fore- casting model. By international agree- ment the world"s airlines have access to flight forecasting information for all parts of the world from the Meteorologi- cal Office headquarters a...