Climatological Statistician

摘要

"You do get some stick at parties when you say that you work for the Met office, but that's part and parcel of the British way of life." You cannot blame Matthew Perry for the drought orders of last summer, for the monsoon-like downpours that flattened your garden soon after or for the strangely-delayed coming of autumn and winter last year, though he might be able to tell you that such extremes and disruptions of orderly weather may happen more frequently in future. He is a statistician whose job for the Meteorological Office is more long term. He analyses past data, to set base-lines, thus to tell us whether and by how much we are departing from them; but he doesn't do daily weather.