Met Office

Project planning

The values and averages produced in our climate data reports provide a tool to help you identify potential downtime during a contract period enabling you to develop contingency plans and negotiate realistic contracts.

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Monthly planning averages

This report can be used for New Engineering Contracts (NEC) as it provides 1-in-10 year values based on station data between 1970 and 2010.

Elements within the report are monthly rainfall totals, days with more than 5 mm of rain, days with air frost and days with snow lying. Long term averages are also included based on station data between 1981 and 2010. Wind data can also be added if required.

Monthly planning averages Monthly planning averages example (PDF, 188 kB)

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Downtime long-term averages

Elements contained within this report are temperature, humidity, rainfall, snow, mean wind speed and gusts, and frost, taken from a range of climate stations across the UK.

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Download the data sheet

Smarter Data sheet 2011 Smarter Data sheet 2011 (PDF, 475 kB)

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Last Updated: 17 April 2012