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As a Specialist Geospatial Centre (SGC) for the Ministry Of Defence (MOD), the Met Office provides a key element of its foundation geospatial information capability, and has directly supported British and allied operations worldwide for over 100 years. Met Office defence teams have extensive

We are a Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) designated provider of meteorological services, a World Area Forecast Centre and a Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre.

of services, we support UK pilots, airlines, and airports with free meteorological information, with performance continuously assessed against KPIs agreed with the CAA. Internationally, we improve flight safety and fuel efficiency as a World Area Forecast Centre and Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre

State of the UK Climate 2015 Mike Kendon 1 , Dr Mark McCarthy 1 , Dr Svetlana Jevrejeva 2 , Tim Legg 1 1 Met Office National Climate Information Centre 2 National Oceanography Centre Cover: Satellite image of storm Desmond on 5 December 2015. The low pressure centre is off south-east Iceland at 940

) • Yemen - Currently 14 extremely uncomfortable days per year (Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, 2021a). Observed increase in number of heatwave days (Chambers, 2020). Observed warming in Red Sea. Observed increases in marine heatwave frequency and duration (Mohamed et al., 2021) • Egypt

The international Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) initiative and the National Meteorological Library and Archive Dr Rob Allan, International ACRE Initiative Manager, Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom Background The international Atmospheric

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WAFC Convective cloud (Cb) verification using satellite data Executive Summary Convective cloud (Cb) represents an important hazard to aviation. The World Area Forecast Centres (WAFCs) produce routine forecasts of convective cloud for use by airlines around the world. This report summarises

historic weather records. Dr Mark McCarthy is the head of the Met Office’s National Climate Information Centre. Commenting on the extension of the temperature series, he said: “Looking back further into the UK’s weather reveals a very interesting timeline with the top ten warmest years at the most recent

trees and power outages, with damage to the roof of the Titanic Belfast Museum. Weather data The analysis chart at 1200UTC 6 April 2024 shows storm Kathleen centred to the west of the UK with associated fronts sweeping north across the country. The central pressure from this storm was particularly deep

. The Welsh Government reported 433 properties were flooded, the majority of these in South Wales. The centre of Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire was flooded when a wall collapsed under pressure from a local brook. Other locations affected included Lydney and Frampton Cotterell, both Gloucestershire