The Met Office used to supply meteorological data for the BBC's forecasts until, iirc, 2 years ago - since then they've been getting info from MeteoGroup who will probably come to different conclusions than the Met.

The Met Office is insulated from the rest of the Civil Service. This comes with benefits as mentioned by others, but you can easily miss out on opportunities that might be more readily apparent in a different department or would come about with collaborative work.

I always use Metoffice and although it can be a little bit inaccurate, it is the most accurate weather app but the BBC has never gotten it right, even when Metoffice has gotten it wrong. I literally never bother with the BBC app at this point. I wonder if they're aware that it's this incredibly bad.

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Having the Met Office and BBC Weather constantly at odds with each other, and not knowing which to trust Archived post. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast.

The rest of it says "building requirements not met". I have no idea why. Each piece - service counters, etc - says the same thing, with the build button greyed out. I tried adding an extra door to one piece, and the button became available. But as soon as I clicked, it went back to saying building requirements not met. It's tragic.

Hello I was wondering if there were any active / ex met office employees that could give me advice on how to get into the business / industry. Context : I'm a second year maths student at the university of Exeter and I've had a growing passion for meterology as a whole. I've applied for placement years but I haven't had much luck ( see images attached ) and I've decided to go for a graduate ...

Every word document I open goes into file recovery mode. I have completely uninstalled and reinstalled office twice. I can make new documents, but when I open them back up, I'm met with this screen again. Opening under document recovery has the same results. Safe mode doesn't work either

So the met office integration I use for weather is in the 2024.2 backward incompatible changes, see here…

Just wanted to share a funny story. On a recently build PC with Windows 11 I installed old Microsoft Office 2007. And here the story begins. First, I saw a monit to download an update for the Office 2007 - I was full of appreciation to Microsoft for supporting an almost-20-year-old software. But then problems began. After installing the update and rebooting, one of the displays stopped working ...