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Met Office
 Logo of the Met Office since 1987 | |
| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 1 August 1854 |
| Jurisdiction | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters | Bracknell, Berkshire (before December 2003) Met Office Operations Centre, Exeter, Devon (since December 2003) |
| Motto | Per scientiam tempestates praedicere |
| Employees | 2,223 (March 2022)[1] |
| Minister responsible | |
| Deputy Minister responsible |
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| Agency executives |
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| Parent agency | Department for Science, Innovation and Technology |
| Website | www |
The Met Office, until November 2000 officially the Meteorological 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.
Although an executive agency of the UK Government, the Met Office supports the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive in their functions and preparations ahead of intense weather and planning for extreme weather alerts. Met Office policies can be used by each government to inform their planning and decision making processes. The Met Office has an office located in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, and a forecasting centre in Aberdeen in the north–east of Scotland, which are some of the services used to help the Scottish Government with objectives such as climate change.[5]
- ^ "Met Office annual report and accounts 2021 to 2022". gov.uk.
- ^ "Meteorological Office Archive". Retrieved 5 December 2013.
In November 2000 the organisation underwent a corporate rebrand and officially changed its name to simply the "Met Office".
- ^ "Met Office Chief Executive stands down". Gov.uk. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Endersbywas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Devolved administrations". Met Office. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
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