Site Summary: The Met Office Home Page


A useful site, with many interesting and regularly updated elements. The site has a useful menu which direct the user appropriately. the most practical aspects are highlighted below:

  • Links to scores of international meteorological organisations - could be useful in A level study of climate.
  • 30 year averages for British climate/UK extremes/'interesting weather'
  • Reports on the effects of global warming from the DETR (UK gov't)
  • Animated synoptic charts and current satellite images.

P. Stucken. Maidstone Grammar School, March 2000

Keywords: geography, weather, climate, synoptic charts, current satellite images, global warming.
Age: KS3, KS4, sixth

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