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Customer Supplier Agreement For the provision of the UK Public Weather Service 2024-2029 Date agreement comes into effect: 1 st April 2024 Met Office Ref No: L6999 1 SECTION 2: PWS PERFORMANCE MEASURES, DELIVERABLES, SERVICES AND REPORTING FOR 2024-29 Contents SECTION 2: PWS PERFORMANCE MEASURES

by the technical and financial partners. They come in the form of project grants and last for the project life-cycle. For the initial implementation of the ECOWAS RCC, AGRHYMET will need an additional funding that would be adequate for the level of activity envisaged for the first five-year development phase

to a week, predictable for one to two weeks ahead. � Much of our severe weather comes from disturbances of the size of a thunderstorm – about 10 km – lasting an hour or so. We can predict these up to about three hours ahead. � Very small disturbances such as tornadoes may be only 1 km across, last

of the wind is defined as the direction from which the wind is blowing. As Atlantic depressions pass the UK the wind typically starts to blow from the south or south west, but later comes from the west or north-west as the depression moves away. The range of directions between south and north-west

to occur, which are fully within the control of the programme What comes out? Overview of key steps to develop your project Theory of Change Following these steps will show how your project ‘unfolds’ to create the changes and impact it wants to support. Step 1. Analyse the context & discuss the need(s

3 Precipitation Type What is this? This layer shows the type of precipitation forecast over the next seven days, including rain, snow, sleet, hail and freezing rain. Freezing rain is rain that freezes when it comes into contact with surfaces that are below 0C which can result in very icy conditions

that freezes when it comes into contact with surfaces that are below 0C which can result in very icy conditions. Data is available for the next seven days – at hourly steps for up to the first 48 hours and three-hourly thereafter. Fig 11: Image showing rain across northern England and Wales and southern

.  Observations from ships are typically made every three to six hours while at sea and transmitted back to the Met Office by satellite. About half of the UK’s ship observations come from European waters and the North Atlantic, with the remainder from further afield.  READ MORE: How the Met Office uses radar

for impact studies and decision making given that none of the model projections for future climate can be validated at this stage. For example, as each estimate comes with a specific level of occurrence (i.e., probability), it thus allows for planning appropriate adaptation strategies in advance

that 76% of observations come from space. However one slide highlighted that 4% of observations from space were annotated as ‘non space’. The Met Office committed to provide detail on the nature of this 4%. The Met Office reported that the biggest contributor to PWS is UK Government (specifically BEIS