Person
Fletcher, Peter (1943 - )
- Born
- 1943
Kent, England - Occupation
- Meteorologist
Summary
Peter Fletcher joined the UK Meteorological Office in 1962. He worked as an Assistant at RAF Bomber Command in High Wycombe, as Officer-in-Charge (meteorology) on weather ships in the North Atlantic for two years and later as a forecaster at RAF stations in the UK and the Middle East. He joined the Bureau of Meteorology as a Technical Officer in 1970 and has served at Brisbane, Townsville, Cairns, Mt Isa and Williamtown in a variety of positions. He authored Seventy-Five Years at Willis Island, Metarch Papers No. 9, 1996, on the meteorological history of the storm-warning wireless station on Willis Island.
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Published resources
Books
- Fletcher, P., Seventy-Five Years at Willis Island, Metarch Papers No. 9 (Bureau of Meteorology, 1996). Details
Journal Articles
- Fletcher, Peter, 'Queensland Regional Director Calls it a Day', Weather News, 325 (August 2000) (2000), 15. Details
Resources
- 'Fletcher, Peter (1943-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475957. Details
Resource Sections
- Fletcher, P., 'Seventy-Five Years at Willis Island', in Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/0596.html. Details
See also
- Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/index_f.html. Details
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Created: 10 May 2001, Last modified: 4 July 2012
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