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The Met Office, until November 2000 officially the Meteorological 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]
Endersby was appointed as chief executive at the Met Office in December 2018; she is the first woman to fill that role. [9] She served on the board of Ploughshare Innovations, the Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) technology transfer office. [10] [11]
Met Éireann Ireland; Météo-France (MF) France; Meteorological Service of Catalonia (SMC) Catalonia, Spain; Norwegian Meteorological Institute (NMI) Norway; Republic Hydrometeorological Institute of Serbia; Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI) Royal Meteorological Institute (KMI) Belgium; Servizio Meteorologico Italy
The Met Office is expecting a further period of strong of strong winds with gusts up to 60mph (100km/h) quite widely, and up to 70mph (115km/h) around exposed coasts and hills. Emergency contacts
The Met Office has named a new storm as winds of up to 80mph are expected to hit the UK this weekend.. Storm Éowyn is forecast to make landfall in Ireland late on Thursday before moving on to the ...
The UK Met Office has issued a yellow wind warning for Northern Ireland due to the storm. It said: “Storm Eowyn is expected to pass close to or across the north west of the UK on Friday before ...
Rob Varley was appointed chief executive of the Met Office in 2014. [1] He stepped down in 2018. [2] Varley was First Vice President of the World Meteorological Organization until 24 April 2018. [3] He was educated at Cheltenham Bournside School and graduated from the University of East Anglia with a BSc in Environmental Sciences in 1983. [4]
The Met Office employs over 1500 staff, with approximately 200 working in its climate research unit. Most of its funding comes from contracts with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), other United Kingdom Government departments and the European Commission .