Met Office

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; 170 years ago (1 August 1854)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
HeadquartersBracknell, Berkshire (before December 2003)
Met Office Operations Centre, Exeter, Devon (since December 2003)
MottoPer scientiam tempestates praedicere
Employees2,223 (March 2022)[1]
Minister responsible
Deputy Minister responsible
  • Patrick Vallance, Minister of State (Minister for Science, Research and Innovation)
Agency executives
  • Penny Endersby, Chief Executive
  • Stephen Belcher, Chief of Science and Technology
Parent agencyDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology
Websitewww.metoffice.gov.uk

The Meteorological Office, abbreviated as the Met Office,[2] is the United Kingdom's national weather and climate service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and is led by CEO[3] Penelope Endersby, who took on the role as Chief Executive in December 2018 and is the first woman to do so.[4] The Met Office makes meteorological predictions across all timescales from weather forecasts to climate change.

  1. ^ "Met Office annual report and accounts 2021 to 2022". gov.uk.
  2. ^ "Meteorological Office Archive". Retrieved 5 December 2013. In November 2000 the organisation underwent a corporate rebrand and officially changed its name to simply the "Met Office".
  3. ^ "Met Office Chief Executive stands down". Gov.uk. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Endersby was invoked but never defined (see the help page).