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• Seamless decision-making for climate adaptation

  About us Who we are, what we do and organisational news. Who we are Who we are Our people Our values Our history Accuracy Innovation Impact How we are run How we are run The Met Office Board Our governance structure Public Weather Service Our Chief Executive The Executive Team Non-Executive

• making-lightning-diy-activity.pdf

  Making Lightning Overview What is lightning? When does it occur and why does it happen? In this activity, we explore how lightning forms and how we can make our own lightning at home using static electricity. Time required 60 minutes Materials required • • Balloon Metal spoon (anything metal

• Yellow thunderstorm warnings issued

  bringing with it an increasing risk of thunderstorms to southern counties. Met Office Chief Meteorologist, Andy Page, said: “Many places within the warning areas are unlikely to see a thunderstorm at all, but those places that do see one could well see impacts from heavy rain and frequent lightning

• James Hines Photography

  The Artistic Lens by Paul Armstrong Can you tell us a bit about you and what you do?  I’m James Hines. I'm a landscape photographer based near the North York Moors in the UK. I’m really interested in how the weather affects the mood of a photograph, and I'm even known as the “Mood Chasing

• sustainability-commitments.pdf

  and the participation of all staff, as well as engaging effectively with external stakeholders. Drive We’re dedicated to embedding sustainability in everything we do as an organisation and ensuring there is effective governance in place to enable this. Integrity We believe that operating in a sustainable way should

• International projects

  for African Climate (IMPALA) What it is and what it does This research programme, led by the Met Office, aims to improve understanding of Africa's climate to help provide high-quality information that is crucial for effective decision making across the continent. It will lead to a step-change

• Conservative semi-Lagrangian transport schemes

  (Eulerian) grid. However, the interpolation operation does not conserve properties of the field, in particular mass. Therefore, an SL based transport scheme does not generally conserve mass of the transported species. Some applications do not need exact mass conservation, e.g. NWP for which

• Who we are

  cutting-edge and emerging technologies, and pushing new boundaries to deliver weather and climate science and services that make an impact in our ever-changing world. Impact What we do can impact everyone individually and collectively. Whether that is in terms of our Public Weather Service and National

• wiser-co-production-guidance.pdf

  -exploration is likely to take place through a series of facilitated dialogues, whether in a collective workshop format, or through individual interviews. Such processes generally do not form part of the standard model of scientific project development, whereby climate products are generated based

• Tropical cyclone facts

  Tropical cyclones are one of the most dangerous natural hazards to people. Every year, they cause considerable loss of life and do immense damage to property. Find out more about them in this page.

    Introduction What is a tropical cyclone? How do tropical cyclones form? How does the tropical cyclone obtain its energy? How do they get their names? Where and when do tropical cyclones occur? How are tropical cyclones ranked? Tropical cyclone prediction Tropical cyclone warnings Notable tropical