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Data available from Central Climate Unit


Basic data

Raw data  

  • Hundreds of UK sites back to 1961

  • Thousands of international sites back to 1984

  • Delivery on paper, disk, e-mail or by CD-ROM

  • Format of tables, delimited data files or Excel spreadsheets

Remotely sensed data  

  • Sferics/ATD data to give geographic spread of lightning strikes

  • Weather radar data to supplement raingauge data in rain storms

Frequency analyses  

  • Categorises and combination of weather variables

  • Uses data back to 1961 if required

  • Cumulative and discrete analyses

  • Limit ranges altered to meet client needs

  • Wind roses as colour diagrams or bitmaps

Long-period statistics  

  • Calculated at all monitoring sites

  • Five kilometre grid of interpolated data for UK

  • Site-specific values inferred from gridded data
Derived data


Return periods/extremes  

  • We are able to place most weather phenomena into context as a return period

  • For design purposes, threshold values for specified return periods are given

Large-area averages  

  • Wide range of weather elements

  • Monthly averages for any area county size or larger

  • Draws on a long period of data from many observing sites

  • Data routinely prepared for England, Scotland, Wales and N Ireland plus 10 districts at the end of each month

  • Rainfall averages over catchments and NRA regions

Soil moisture (MORECS)  

  • For any combination of soil and crop types

  • Real-time weekly updates on 40 x 40 km grid for UK

  • Averages and extremes back to 1961 on 40 x 40 km grid

  • Site-specific actual data and averages/totals

Winter road dressing (Met Office OpenRoad Index)  

  • Analysis of concrete-minimum temperature and rainfall

  • Long-period analysis of past data to infer future gritting runs
Subscription services


General Monthly Summary

  • A routinely produced summary of the weather on A4 sheets for a selection of stations

  • Available within two weeks of the end of the month

Daily Weather Summary

  • Weather maps with symbols for reference purposes

  • Produced once per month

Outdoor working-day weather - MetBUILD

  • Past data for around 50 observing sites

Heating and cooling data - Degree Days

  • Data for 18 regions for heating needs or air conditioning

  • Past data service based on any base temperature for any observing site
Consultancy services

 

Storm analysis 

  • Return periods and analysis of short-period heavy rainfall events

  • Based on 4,500 raingauges and weather radar

  • Uses well-established storm-profiling methods

 

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