Met Office

The Meteorological Office, abbreviated as the Met Office, is the United Kingdom's national weather service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and is led by CEO Penelope Endersby, who took on the role as Chief Executive in December 2018 and is the first woman to do so. The Met Office makes meteorological predictions across all timescales from weather forecasts to climate change.

This article is about the weather service in the United Kingdom. For the one in Pakistan, see Pakistan Meteorological Department.
"UKMET" redirects here. For the weather prediction system, see Unified Model.

Met Office
Logo of the Met Office since 1987
Agency overview
Formed1 August 1854 (1 August 1854)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
HeadquartersMet Office Operations Centre, Exeter, Devon (since December 2003)
Employees2,223 (March 2022)
Minister responsible
Agency executive
Parent agencyDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology
Websitewww.metoffice.gov.uk
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