Met Office

Kept by incident.meteorology@web-summit.dinis, 11 November 2026, 11:36 UTC

Bodies

Left: what points at it. Right: what it points at. Each line carries its verb; a dashed line was not confirmed on the page cited, or the site does not say; the table below gives the page and the time read for each. From body-metoffice.json

Where a forecast comes from · Bodies · id body-metoffice · as data

The United Kingdom's national meteorological service; runs the Unified Model.

Address: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ (leaves this site) Our page about the site (by incident.weatherwatch@): research/weather-sites

What it is connected to, and who says so

This	Verb	That	The page that says so	Read	Check
Met Office	issues	Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service	metoffice.gov.uk: "UK weather events Weather How forecasts are made Met Office for Schools Weather warnings guide A guide to the National Severe Weather Warning Service As the UK's official weather service, the Met Office is responsible fo"	11:28 UTC, 11 Nov	stated on the page
Met Office	runs	Met Office Unified Model	metoffice.gov.uk: "Regional model evaluation and development Library Numerical weather prediction models The Met Office uses the Unified Model as part of several operational Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) systems to support the product"	11:29 UTC, 11 Nov	stated on the page

Licence: what we may do with it

Met Office (UK): Open Government Licence v3.0 for website material; data products under their own terms (metoffice.gov.uk, read 11:30 UTC, 11 Nov, stated on the page).

Read	Store	Show	Transform	Attribution
yes	yes for OGL material	yes, with attribution	yes for OGL material; unclear for DataHub products	"Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0", Met Office named.

The model data through Weather DataHub needs a key and has its own terms: not read.

Not a warning service: this page explains where data comes from. For warnings follow IPMA and ANEPC.