The Met Office (officially the Meteorological Office) is the United Kingdom’s national weather service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy led by acting CEO, Nick Jobling and chief scientist, Professor Stephen Belcher.
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