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hom-77	Martin-Nielsen, Janet	Scientific forecasting? Performing objectivity at the UK’s Meteorological Office, 1960s-1970s	2017	20	.pdf	application/pdf	10499	261	25	Still, in the following years, from 1961 to 1965, numerical methods were gradually integrated into daily operations and Meteorological Office scientists began to warm up to the technology: in late 1961, researchers described the 24-hour numerical forecasts as “encouraging”, and by early 1965 the Meteorological Research Committee reported that the Meteorological Office’s scientific staff had developed and run trials demonstrating “not only that the mathematical forecast charts were superior to those produced by mind and hand, but also that the process could be used as part of the routine forecasting operations of the Central Forecasting Office”.30 With a mandate to oversee the Meteorological Office and advise the Secretary of State for Air on matters pertaining to the national weather service, the Meteorological Research Committee was a powerful and influential force.31 With this slow yet sure change in attitudes, coupled with Mason’s firm belief that “traditional techniques have been pushed nearly as far as seems profitable” and that computers offered the only potential for “dramatic improvements in the quality and range of the weather forecast”, Mason decided to make numerical weather prediction operational.32 Numerical weather forecasts were inaugurated at the Meteorological Office on November 2, 1965, just a month after Mason took over as director. 64 Meteorological Committee: Meteorological Office Services to the Public – Report by Management Consultants Messrs Peter Ward Associates (Document MC/P89, File BJ5/302, Meteorological Office: Administrative Records, KEW), p. 1.	cache/hom-77.pdf	txt/hom-77.txt