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and the Met Office to provide flood risk guidance for England and Wales. The Centre is jointly staffed from both parent organisations and is based in the Operations Centre at the Met Office headquarters in Exeter. In Scotland this role is performed by the Scottish Flood Forecasting Service, a joint
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stations where a staffed met office is provided for military operations. The "standard" is a once-hourly reporting schedule, but automatic stations can often be "polled" as required, whilst stations at airfields report twice-hourly, with additional (often frequent in times of bad weather) special
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in 1986, but has since evolved into an all-purpose dispersion model capable of predicting the transport, transformation and deposition of a wide class of airborne materials. NAME is used operationally by the Met Office as an emergency response model as well as for routine air quality forecasting.
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covering the UK and surroundings (replacing the 4 km model), 48-hour forecasts from the 12 km resolution NAE model covering Europe and the North Atlantic, and 144-hour forecasts from the 25 km resolution global model (replacing the 40 km global model). The Met Office's Global
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Although no longer part of the MOD, the Met Office maintains strong links with the military through its front line offices at RAF and Army bases both in the UK and overseas and its involvement in the Joint Operations Meteorology and Oceanography Centre (JOMOC) with the Royal Navy. The
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enabled rapid dissemination of warnings and also led to the development of an observational network which could then be used to provide synoptic analysis. The Met Office started in 1861 to provide weather forecasts to newspapers. FitzRoy requested the daily traces of the
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The Met Office makes seasonal and long range forecasts and distributes them to customers and users globally. The Met Office was the first climate and weather forecast provider to be recognised as a Global Producing Centre of long range forecasts by the
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The FAAM was established as part of the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), itself part of NERC, to provide aircraft measurement for use by UK atmospheric research organisations on worldwide campaigns. The main equipment is a modified
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Model forecast has consistently been in the top 3 for global weather forecast performance (in the decades up to 2010) in independent verification to WMO standards. Products for other regions of the globe are sold to customers abroad, provided for
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data (e.g. maximum and minimum temperatures, rainfall totals over a period, etc.) and these are usually recorded at 0900 and 2100 hours daily. Weather reports are often performed by observers not specifically employed by the Met Office, such as
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in a violent storm in October 1859 led to the first gale warning service. FitzRoy established a network of 15 coastal stations from which visual gale warnings could be provided for ships at sea.
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The Met Office coordinates the production and collation of decadal climate prediction from climate centres around the world as part of its responsibilities as World Meteorological Organisation
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operations abroad or provided free to developing countries in Africa. If necessary, forecasters may make adjustments to the computer forecasts. Data is stored in the Met Office's own
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The BBC used to use Met Office forecasts for all of its output, but on 23 August 2015, it was announced that the BBC would be replacing the Met Office with
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clouds that could enter aircraft flight paths and impact aviation safety. The London VAAC, one of nine worldwide, is responsible for the area covering the
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in September 2015 to provide a single authoritative naming system for the storms that affect the UK and Ireland. The first named storm under this system,
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developed by the Met Office is used to forecast the movement of the ash clouds 6, 12 and 18 hours from the time of the alert at different flight levels.
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in Oxfordshire, and there is a Met Office presence at Army and Air Force bases within the UK and abroad (including frontline units in conflict zones).
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continues by maintaining a Meteorological Research Unit (MRU). This is responsible for conducting research into part of the atmosphere called the
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The Met Office is one of only two World Area Forecast Centres or WAFCs, and is referred to as WAFC London. The other WAFC is located in
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payers. The BBC still uses some Met Office data for certain forecasts, particularly severe weather warnings and the Shipping Forecast.
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who accompany forward units in times of conflict advising the armed forces of the conditions for battle, particularly the RAF.
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In November 2000 the organisation underwent a corporate rebrand and officially changed its name to simply the "Met Office".
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in space and observations on earth, then processing it with a variety of models, based on a software package known as the
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and continues to provide forecasts to the WMO for dissemination to other national meteorological services worldwide.
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reports as necessary to inform airfield authorities of changes to the weather that may affect aviation operations.
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The forecast is produced for pollutants and their typical health effects are shown in the following table.
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with instruments being carried by barrage balloons until the RAE facility closed in the 1980s.
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This article is about the weather service in the United Kingdom. For the one in Pakistan, see
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Ronalds, B.F. (June 2016). "Sir Francis Ronalds and the Early Years of the Kew Observatory".
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The main role of the Met Office is to produce forecast models by gathering information from
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Meteorological Research Unit and the Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM)
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was announced on 10 November 2015. In 2019, the Met Office and Met Éireann were joined by
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Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Future Digital Economy and Online Safety
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Since 2012 the Met Office Contact Centre (known as the Weather Desk) has been part of
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weather forecasts are generally provided by naval officers, not Met Office personnel.
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Some stations have limited reporting times, while other report continuously, mainly
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The Met Office issues Severe Weather Warnings for the United Kingdom through the
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in Berkshire, the Joint Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Research (JCHMR) site at
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The Met Office was established on 1 August 1854 as a small department within the
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It has a worldwide presence – including a forecasting centre in
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As part of its aviation forecast operation the Met Office operates the London
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in April 1990, a quasi-governmental role, being required to act commercially.
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Met Office research has broken new ground in seasonal forecasting for the
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The Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM), part of the
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by using a tethered balloon which is kept in a small portable hangar.
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Fine particles can be carried deep into the lungs where they can cause
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These gases irritate the airways of the lungs, increasing the symptoms
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and has demonstrated its abilities in its seasonal predictions of the
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Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for AI and Digital Government
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Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom
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The Climate Files: The Battle for the Truth about Global Warming
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In 2015 the Met Office won awards in the following categories:
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In September 2003 the Met Office moved its headquarters from
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using the Met Office's data and animated weather symbols.
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Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
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inflammation and a worsening of heart and lung diseases
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Sir Francis Ronalds: Father of the Electric Telegraph
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Winter storm naming in the United Kingdom and Ireland
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aircraft, registration G-LUXE, owned and operated by
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Lead Centre for Annual to Decadal Climate Prediction
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Index

Pakistan Meteorological Department
Unified Model

Bracknell
Met Office Operations Centre
Exeter
Peter Kyle
Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
Patrick Vallance
Penny Endersby
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
www.metoffice.gov.uk
executive agency
trading fund
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Penelope Endersby
climate change

Vice Admiral
Robert FitzRoy
Board of Trade
Vice Admiral
Robert FitzRoy
mariners
Royal Charter
Anglesey
electric telegraph
barograph
Kew Observatory
Francis Ronalds

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