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I think that civilian airports have automatic observation posts probably fed to the Met office and they do the TAFs from there. MetO people just get the METARs - well, that certainly used to be the case. Occasionally a forecaster would telephone the airport to get a bit more detail from the observe...

I'm long out of operational work but I don't think any civil airports in the UK have MetO personnel on site any more. 25 years ago, maybe a bit more, MetO observers were starting to be replaced by ATC staff who did obs as a secondary task. Forecasters were withdrawn from many airfields around the sa...

Well, I feel a bit slow on the uptake but I finally found out where everybody had gone for sensible discussion. Nice to see I'm good company.