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Met Office loses BBC weather forecasting contract

The Met Office has lost its BBC weather forecasting contract, it has confirmed. The UK's weather service has provided the data used for BBC forecasts since the corporation's first radio weather bulletin on 14 November 1922.
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Met Office to build £97m supercomputer

Funding has been confirmed for a £97m supercomputer to improve the Met Office's weather forecasting and climate modelling. The facility will work 13 times faster than the current system, enabling detailed, UK-wide forecast models with a resolution of 1.5km to be run every single hour, rather than every three.
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MPs back more powerful computers for Met Office

The Met Office needs new supercomputers to issue confident extreme weather warnings and more accurate long-term forecasts, a group of MPs has said.
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Met Office 'gobbledygook' awarded

The Meteorological Office's description of its new weather forecasts has been branded as gobbledygook by the Plain English Campaign.
Talking about "probabilities of precipitation" instead of discussing whether "rain is likely", is baffling, says the group.
It has chosen the UK weather service as a recipient of its Golden Bull booby prize.
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Lack of computing power 'hindering weather forecasting'

A lack of computing power is limiting the improvements the Met Office can make to the accuracy of its weather forecasts, MPs have been told.
Prof Paul Hardaker, head of the Royal Meteorological Society, was speaking to the Commons science committee.
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Met Office under a cloud as BBC considers breaking 90-year partnership

Yesterday it emerged that the forecaster's contract to supply data and presenters to the BBC was due to expire in April. The broadcaster has put the five-year deal out to tender, as is standard practice, and Metra, the national forecaster for New Zealand, has come forward as a competitor.
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