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Every day should be D-day for weather forecasters | Letter

The Guardian UK Friday 11 September 2026, 17:01 UTC By Guardian Staff 2 min read
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Margaret Squires responds to an article about the wartime meteorologist James Stagg, whose work is dramatised in a new filmIs there any chance of getting a weather tsar in the model of Group Capt James Stagg, the wartime meteorologist, to adjudicate between weather forecasts (How meteorologists recreated weather that helped decide second world war, 8 September)? Suppose I were holidaying in Fort William this week and really wanted to climb Ben Nevis on Thursday. According to the BBC...

Margaret Squires responds to an article about the wartime meteorologist James Stagg, whose work is dramatised in a new film

Is there any chance of getting a weather tsar in the model of Group Capt James Stagg, the wartime meteorologist, to adjudicate between weather forecasts (How meteorologists recreated weather that helped decide second world war, 8 September)? Suppose I were holidaying in Fort William this week and really wanted to climb Ben Nevis on Thursday. According to the BBC forecast on Wednesday, the worst I could expect would be light rain, and if this was coming up to the end of my holidays, I might go for it. I might not know about the Mountain Weather Information forecast or the Norwegian forecast, which would make it clear that I was in for a soaking.
Margaret Squires
St Andrews, Fife

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