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Latest forecast for London. Tonight. Turning dry this evening and into tonight, with a mixture of clear spells and variable cloud. Towards dawn, the odd light shower may develop in spots....
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Synoptic Fax Charts. Created by the UK Met Office, the fax synoptic charts are updated in stages throughout the day, with four main updates. Other Models.
The Met Office maintains around 300 land synoptic weather observation sites together with 150 voluntary climate sites reporting daily, or in the case of synoptic sites hourly or minute...
- Location of Weather Stations
- Weather Station Sites
- What Happens to The Weather Station Data?
- Verifying Records
- Do You Have A Weather Station at Home?
Weather stationsare found throughout the UK, providing valuable data to our meteorologists. Consistency of measurements is vital across the network, both for informing our forecasts and for the long-term weather and climate records of the UK. To ensure consistency of measurements in the records, weather stations must meet strict criteria, in alignm...
Weather station sites are selected to ensure that the observations are representative of the wider area around the station and not unduly influenced by local effects.
Measurements of all the elements are automatically logged at the weather station. Each weather station produces observations at minute intervals, from all sensors. The data are then transmitted to a central collecting system based at our headquarters, at Exeter, where the data are passed through numerous quality control checks.
All Met Office UK weather observations are subject to an internationally-agreed rigorous quality-control process. For new official records, we undertake further careful investigation to ensure that the measurement taken is robust, reliable, is feasible in the meteorological set-up and adheres to international World Meteorological Organisation stand...
We've enhanced our weather observations network by inviting everyone who has a personal weather station, manual or automatic, to send data to our Weather Observations Website (WOW). We hope this will appeal to schools, amateur meteorologists, and weather enthusiasts across the UK. This extra data will be extremely useful in forecasting and monitori...
Dec 16, 2020 · With interest growing in the weather over the coming weeks, Alex has all the latest details in the 10 day trend. You can check the latest weather warnings on our severe weather warnings...
A synoptic chart is a more detailed weather map which shows what type of weather system is moving over Britain. Isobar lines which join up areas of equal air pressure are drawn on these...
