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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 Kansas City, Missouri, and known as WAFC Washington. WAFC data is used daily to safely and economically route aircraft, particularly on long-haul journeys. The data provides details of wind speed and direction ...
Find out how the Met Office is run, who owns it, and details on the Met Office Board and Executive.
Who we are. We are the national meteorological service for the UK. And we provide critical weather services and world-leading climate science, helping everyone stay safe and thrive. From our beginnings in the middle 1800’s we have led the way in the science of meteorology and its application. We’ve been continually innovating and evolving ...
About us - Met Office. About us. Right across the world, every single day, people make decisions based on the weather and our changing climate. We combine weather and climate science and data with expert insights to help with those decisions so people can be safe, well and prosperous. Everything we do is based on world-leading science and ...
The Met Office was threatened with privatisation in 2008 and again in 2013, but happily it stayed in public hands. In 2018 the Met Office sadly lost its contract to provide the BBC weather forecast (which it had delivered since 1922). The contract was given to MeteoGroup which is owned by private equity group General Atlantic.
About us. The Met Office is the UK's national meteorological service. We provide weather and climate-related services to the government, businesses, emergency responders and the public. Met Office ...
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Met Office. Established in 1854, The Met Office is the UK’s national weather service and is at the forefront of research into weather and climate change. Despite having built a reputation of trust, employees thought their brand looked ‘tired’ and did not reflect their positioning at the cutting edge of weather and climate science.
