Met Office

<p>The Met Office, until November 2000 officially the Meteorological Office, is the United Kingdom's national weather and climate service. It is an <a href="/facts/Executive_agency/hTRRfjYN">executive agency</a> and <a href="/facts/Trading_fund/63z0lQlD">trading fund</a> of the <a href="/facts/Department_for_Science%2c_Innovation_and_Technology/H4lbPY1P">Department for Science, Innovation and Technology </a> and is led by CEO <a href="/facts/Penelope_Endersby/moFt1jpV">Penelope Endersby</a>, who took on the role as Chief Executive in December 2018 and is the first woman to do so. The Met Office makes meteorological predictions across all timescales from weather forecasts to <a href="/facts/Climate_change/rEN4BDE7">climate change</a>.
</p><p>Although an executive agency of the UK Government, the Met Office supports the <a href="/facts/Scottish_Government/ettgIz7G">Scottish Government</a>, <a href="/facts/Welsh_Government/WkRLquvy">Welsh Government</a> and <a href="/facts/Northern_Ireland_Executive/aJV6zI5M">Northern Ireland Executive</a> in their functions and preparations ahead of intense weather and planning for extreme weather alerts. Met Office policies can be used by each government to inform their planning and decision making processes. The Met Office has an office located in the Scottish capital, <a href="/facts/Edinburgh/PcsoaK9h">Edinburgh</a>, and a forecasting centre in Aberdeen in the north–east of Scotland, which are some of the services used to help the Scottish Government with objectives such as <a href="/facts/Climate_change_in_Scotland/hppDFoNA">climate change</a>. 
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