I fired an email off to the Met Office enquiries desk the week before last, but as it looks like I'll get no reply from them, I thought I'd post it to the forum in the forlorn hope that someone else has noticed and might know the answers:
Can anyone in your observations section tell me anything about a fixed buoy called '03380' that's been producing an hourly ship report for some months now. It seems to be very close to Spurn Point and curiously the call sign that it uses would be very close to the WMO numbers assigned to nearby land stations in the area (03396).
The other thing you might may be able to help me with is what ever happened to the SYNOPs from 03498 Tibenham? It seemed to work for a number of months last year but has now ceased observing.
I think this is the approximate position of 03380.