Meteorological Office

Meteorological Office

The Meteorological Office (or Met Office, the preferred form), which has its headquarters at Exeter in Devon, is the UK's national weather service.

Established in 1854 as a small department within the Board of Trade under Robert FitzRoy as a service to mariners, the Met Office later became part of the Ministry of Defence. In 2003 it moved to its present location from Bracknell in Berkshire.

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