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The Meteorological Office, abbreviated as the Met Office, [2] is the United Kingdom's national weather and climate service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and is led by CEO [3] Penelope Endersby, who took on the role as Chief Executive in December 2018 and is the first woman to do so. [4]
The Met Office Hadley Centre — named in honour of George Hadley — is one of the United Kingdom 's leading centres for the study of scientific issues associated with climate change. It is part of, and based at the headquarters of the Met Office in Exeter.
National Severe Weather Warning Service. The National Severe Weather Warning Service (shortened to NSWWS) is a service provided by the Met Office in the United Kingdom. The purpose of this service is to warn the public and emergency responders of severe or hazardous weather which has the potential to cause danger to life or widespread disruption.
Temperatures are expected to climb in the coming days reaching the mid-20s by the middle of the week and then up to 30C in places, the Met Office predicts, as a surge of warm air will envelop the ...
The Met Office and other weather services have three colour coded warning levels: Yellow: Be aware. Possible travel delays, or the disruption of your day-to-day activities. Amber: Be prepared. Could cause road and rail closures, interruption to power, and the potential risk to life and property. Red: Take action. Widespread damage, travel and ...
The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps, brought into practice in 1949 after World War II. The map filled the ...
John Francis Brake Mitchell OBE FRS (born 7 October 1948) is a British climatologist and climate modeller. [ 1] He studied Applied Mathematics at Queen's University Belfast, graduating in 1970 and staying on to gain a PhD in Theoretical Physics in 1973. In 1978, he was appointed head of the Climate Change group in what is now the Met Office 's ...
Adam A. Scaife is a British physicist and head of long range prediction at the Met Office. [1] He is also a professor at Exeter University. [2] Scaife carries out research into long range weather forecasting and computer modelling of the climate and has published over 250 peer reviewed studies [3] on atmospheric dynamics, computer modelling and climate as well as popular science [4] and ...