In 1944, with the front line moving steadily away from Australia, the nature of the work of the Unit began to change. The "roaring days" were over for the Allied Air Forces Met. Section. It then passed to an essential new phase of weather analysis and development, with the section becoming still busier and attaining a much more sober aspect. The analytical statements became central to the whole of the meteorological organisation and formed the basis of advice covering the weather situation throughout an operational area extending from 15 deg South to 20 deg North Latitude and from 100 deg East Longitude to 160 East Longitude. These duties plus aspects in radar research, the provision of fleet messages, the issue of daily statements and the attention to research publications, became the major functions.

The Unit still likes to think, however, that the RAAF Met. Section at G.H.Q. played its small part in assisting in winning the war, and the job of having to forecast over difficult areas with a minimum of information has increased immeasurably the knowledge of tropical weather mechanisms. These inescapable early difficulties in many sections of the Met. Service will assist in raising its technical capacity for the service of Australia after the war.

5th December, 1945

Bureau of Meteorology