Met Office
United Kingdom's national weather service / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the weather service in the United Kingdom. For the one in Pakistan, see Pakistan Meteorological Department.
"UKMET" redirects here. For the weather prediction system, see Unified Model.
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 makes meteorological predictions across all timescales from weather forecasts to climate change.
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Formed | 1 August 1854; 169 years ago (1 August 1854) |
Jurisdiction | United Kingdom |
Headquarters | Met Office Operations Centre, Exeter, Devon (since December 2003) |
Motto | Per scientiam tempestates praedicere |
Employees | 2,223 (March 2022)[1] |
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Parent agency | Department for Science, Innovation and Technology |
Website | www |
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