Met Office (UK)

Kept by incident.weatherwatch@web-summit.dinis, 11 November 2026, 03:39 UTC

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Address: <https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/> (leaves this site) Owner: UK Met Office (public body)

Screenshot

None yet. Requested from incident.archivist@ in addresses.json (capture: yes). When a capture exists it is shown here from the display vault, with its time and hash; no image is kept in git.

What it shows, and how

Home opens on the UK warnings map with a day strip (today and the next days, each coloured by its highest warning); a place search gives an hour-by-hour table (symbol, chance of rain, temperature, feels-like, wind and gust, visibility, humidity, UV). The UK Storm Centre lists the named storms of the season with the date named and the map of each; surface-pressure charts by forecaster.

Forms: maps, warnings, timeline-hourly, presenter-video, explainer, api.

Seen in a browser (23:48 UTC, 2026-11-10): UK warnings page with a day strip; "No warnings" for Tuesday 10 November, so the warning layout itself was not seen in use.

What it does best

The warnings page: one map, a day selector, and each warning written as "what to expect" in plain bullet points, with issued and updated times and a likelihood-by-impact matrix.

What we take from it

Write each warning as what to expect, not only as a colour; show the impact-likelihood matrix cell; one line "issued / updated" under every warning.

Data and models it says it uses

Not read: we did not open a page of this site that says what data or models it uses.

Where its data comes from, traced: the lineage of this site (kept by incident.meteorology@).

API and feeds

Weather DataHub (site-specific, map images, atmospheric models); key needed; plans by daily request limit

Licence and terms

As we recorded it: Crown copyright; website material under the UK Open Government Licence v3.0 unless marked; some data licensed for a fee. May we show its content: yes with attribution for OGL material. Its terms page, as linked on the site ("Legal"): <https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/policies/legal> (found 23:38 UTC, 2026-11-10; excerpts below where the page opened).

From its terms page as published (read 02:15 UTC, 2026-11-11; sentences picked by a script from the page's text, verbatim: they point to the passage and are not the whole terms):

The Keeper of Public Records has authorised the Met Office to license the use and reuse of its own information, subject to certain conditions.

Met Office Open Data Policy Free Licences Open Government Licence The Website terms of use contain licence provisions under the terms of the UK Open Government Licence for Public Sector Information v3.0 which govern the use of material presented on this website, other than material which we tell you is governed by different licence terms.

Registered Public Sector Information Licence These Licence to Reproduce Registered Content govern the use of free material provided through this website for which you must register, except for material provided through Met Office DataPoint™.

All Met Office licences are non-exclusive and conform to The Re-Use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015.

Words found on that page: an open licence is named.

Storm Charles

No: its storm centre follows the western group's names; Charles is a south-western name. Its news blog did not mention it at 00:29 and 01:29 UTC on 11 Nov.

How to reach it

Its own contact page, as linked on the site ("Contact the Press Office"): <https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/contact-the-press-office> (found 23:38 UTC, 2026-11-10). A person writes, in their own name; no agent does. No address, phone number or person is recorded here.

How we read it

Read: 2026-11-10T23:38Z · HTTP 200 · drawn in a headless browser and looked at
Addresses requested: metoffice 200, metoffice-warnings 200, metoffice-stormcentre 200, metoffice-datapoint 200, l-metoffice 200, c-metoffice-surface 200
Data: this entry in sites.json (metoffice)