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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]
Katesbridge is often noted in weather reports as the coldest location on the island of Ireland as well as within the United Kingdom. This is due to its status as a 'frost hollow', a low-lying location relative to its surroundings which allows the colder air to settle.
The Met Office is monitoring the developing weather situation and Yellow means to keep an eye on the latest forecast and be aware that the weather may change or worsen, leading to disruption of plans within the next few days. Amber: Be Prepared. There is an increased likelihood of severely or extremely bad weather affecting people in the area ...
The Unified Model is a numerical weather prediction and climate modeling software suite originally developed by the United Kingdom Met Office from 1990, [1] [2] and now both used and further developed by many weather-forecasting agencies around the world. [3]
Valentia Observatory, then the only permanently staffed weather station; 4 telegraphic stations (at Malin Head, Blacksod Point, Roche's Point and Birr) 18 climatological stations; 172 rainfall stations; At first, the new weather service was bolstered by Met Office employees seconded from London, but by 1941 they were able to depend on their own ...
Killyleagh Castle. Killyleagh (/ k ɪ l i ˈ l eɪ /; from Irish Cill Ó Laoch, meaning 'church of the descendants of Laoch') [1] [2] is a village and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is on the A22 road between Belfast and Downpatrick, on the western side of Strangford Lough. It had a population of 2,787 people in the 2021 Census.
The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps, brought into practice in 1949 after World War II. The map filled the ...
Helen's Bay is a village on the northern coast of County Down, Northern Ireland.It is within the townland of Ballygrot (from Irish Baile gCrot 'settlement of hillocks'), [1] between Holywood, Crawfordsburn and Bangor.