Sir Nelson Johnson, K.C.B., Director of the Meteorological Office, talks about his job and the responsibilities that his 'Met' Officers carry during air operations against Germany.
An old friend Alvar Lidell, now a Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force, introduces the subject by reading the last weather forecast any listener ever heard broadcast. It was actually read by Lidell at 11 o'clock on the night of August 31, 1939.