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Inside
the Met Office
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Explore a day in the life of:
- Forecaster in the
Environment Monitoring and Response Centre (EMARC)
- Civil aviation
- Forecasting development
- The Met Office is an international centre of excellence for advice on
the weather and the natural environment. We are world leaders in the provision
weather-related services to a wide range of people
- The Met Office was originally created as a small department within
the Board of Trade in 1854 to provide meteorological and sea current
information to mariners. More about
our history
- Our operational centre, main HQ and major research facilities are
in Exeter, Devon
- We have 900 forecasters and support staff at 80 locations around the
UK; at our Operations Centre in Exeter forecasters work a shift roster,
so we're open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- We operate a network of observing sites around the UK, with many
on airfields. The majority use people to make weather observations
but we're making increasing use of automated systems, especially
in remote areas
- We also operate two networks of forecasting offices, one specialising
in information for the armed forces and the other focused on services
to industry, commerce, the media and the public
- As seen on TV: forecasts were first broadcast by the BBC in 1922
(on radio) and captions were shown on TV from 1936, and the first
live TV forecasts started in 1954; today, our TV and radio presenters
are familiar to most people!
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