Met Office

Met Office
	Logo of the Met Office since 2000
Executive agency overview
Formed	1 August 1854
Jurisdiction	United Kingdom
Headquarters	Bracknell, Berkshire (before December 2003); Met Office Operations Centre, Exeter, Devon (since December 2003);
Motto	Per scientiam tempestates praedicere
Employees	2,473 (March 2025)
Minister responsible	Liz Kendall MP, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology;
Deputy Minister responsible	Patrick Vallance, Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation;
Executive agency executives	Penny Endersby, Chief Executive; Stephen Belcher, Chief of Science and Technology;
Parent department	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Website	www.metoffice.gov.uk

The Met Office, previously known as the Meteorological Office until November 2000, 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 Penny Endersby, 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 climate change.

Although an executive agency of the UK Government, the Met Office supports the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive 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, Edinburgh, 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 climate change.