Met Office
Proper noun
Meaning
Met Office
(UK) The British national weather service.
Examples
According to the Met Office forecaster Bonnie Diamond, the “tropical continental air pushing up from a southerly direction in combination with light winds” will lead to temperatures of up to 25C on Sunday and 29C on Monday.
Alex Burkill, a meteorologist at the Met Office, said the wet and windy weather is ‘the prelude, if you will, to what is Storm Ciara’.
A Met Office spokesman said the strongest winds are ‘most likely over and to the east of high ground, particularly the Pennines, which may lead to some travel disruption.’
A single C-130K was purchased by the Met Office for use by its Meteorological Research Flight, where it was classified as the Hercules W.2.
BRITS are being urged to be cautious when travelling, as the Met Office warned of a "danger to life" following the latest weather forecast.
A Met Office spokesman said: 'A spell of very strong winds is expected to spread from the south-west across Wales and many parts of England through Thursday morning.