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Many people have asked us if we could give them a glimpse of the workings of the Carnival Control Centre, which, as regular visitors will know, is located in a nuclear blast proof bunker 200 feet below Greenham Common.
With only days to go before the Carnival, the CCC buzzes with activity at all hours of the day. The Met team are particularly busy, as you can see, and are under a lot of pressure to ensure good weather on 5th July. Route Control spend many hours re-running simulations of the parade while the Carnival Fete and Parade Coordinator’s staff work calmly on their e-comms desks acknowledging new entrants and assigning slots to them using their sophisticated online systems.
With thanks to help from NASA, all the CCC’s systems have been fully upgraded this year so we’re looking forward to using them for the first time on the big day itself. Exciting, isn’t it?
