Data coverage
A high-resolution gridded weather forecast for the UK, with a resolution of 0.018 degrees, projected on to a 2km horizontal grid. The data is available as NetCDF files. It's offered on a free, unsupported basis, so we don’t recommend using it for any critical business purposes. Based on the Met Office UKV model, which is a deterministic, numerical weather prediction model for the UK and Ireland. It is a UK configuration of the Unified Model, which is the Met Office’s flagship Numerical Weather Prediction model. The archive contains data from the past two years. The data is typically available approximately 3 to 6 hours after the model run time. The following timesteps are available: - every hour from 0 to 54 hours (for most parameters) - every 3 hours from 57 to 120 hours For some parameters, data is available for multiple vertical height or pressure levels through the atmosphere.
Access & permitted use
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