Met Office UK Land Surface Observations

Description

Land surface weather observations for 31 parameters from over 250 locations across the Met Office UK land observation network. The data is available as CSV files. You can use it to monitor the latest weather affecting a specific location so you can plan for your business or operations.

The observations are produced every minute and transmitted to the Amazon Registry of Open Data every hour. They’re available for a rolling 7-day period (168 hours).
All locations in the observation network are within the bounding box:

• -15 (West)
• 48 (South)
• 5 (East)
• 62 (North) On average they are about 40km apart, distributed uniformly to detect as many weather features as possible.
  
  31 meteorological parameters are measured across the observation network. But not all locations record all parameters. Check the documentation for the full list of parameters.

Update Frequency

60 minutes of new data for all locations is ingested into the Amazon Registry of Open Data every hour. For example, at 12:00 new data will arrive for observations collected between 10:00-1100. This is due to the quality checks required to verify data for public consumption.

License

British Crown copyright 2024-2025, the Met Office, is licensed under CC BY-SA

Documentation

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/services/data/external-data-channels

Managed By

Met Office

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Contact

servicedesk@metoffice.gov.uk. Service desk is only available Mon – Fri, 09:00 until 17:00 UTC (-1 hour during BST). As a non-operational service we aim to respond to any service support enquiries within 3-5 business days.

How to Cite

Met Office UK Land Surface Observations was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/met-office-uk-land-observations.

Usage Examples

Tutorials

• UK Land Surface Observations Usage Examples by Met Office