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Meteorological Office

The Meteorological Office (or Met Office, the preferred form), which has its headquarters at Exeter in Devon, is the UK's national weather service.

Established in 1854 as a small department within the Board of Trade under Robert FitzRoy as a service to mariners, the Met Office later became part of the Ministry of Defence. In 2003 it moved to its present location from Bracknell in Berkshire.

See Also

• http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ - home page
• http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/history/index.html - History of the Met Office
• Hadley Centre - Climate arm of the Met Office
• UK topics
• Climate of the United Kingdom

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