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Met Office UKV/Global on AWS & Azure (Met Office atmospheric)
Met Office UKV/Global on AWS & Azure (Met Office atmospheric) (Met Office). Access: S3 (anonymous). Formats: NetCDF. Resolution: 2 km. Coverage: UK. Pricing/licence: free (CC BY-SA).
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Licence: free (CC BY-SA)
Evidence quality: 53
Verified 2026-10-16 (curl HTTP 200).
Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z
What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- gridded NWP forecast (UKV deterministic model, 2 km grid) · near-surface air temperature · near-surface relative humidity · multi-level atmospheric parameters (for some parameters only)
- Coverage docs-verified
- UK · rolling 2-year archive
- Resolution docs-verified
- 2 km horizontal grid (0.018 degrees); hourly forecast steps to 54 h, then 3-hourly to 120 h
- Update frequency docs-verified
- Nowcast (12 h) 16 runs per day; Short (54 h) at 0000, 0600, 0900, 1200, 1800, 2100 UTC; Medium (120 h) at 0300 and 1500 UTC
- Formats docs-verified
- NetCDF
- Access docs-verified
- Free, anonymous S3 access (no AWS account required; aws s3 ls --no-sign-request); licence CC BY-SA (British Crown copyright, Met Office)
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Near-surface temperature and humidity context for ecological or dust-mitigation assessments at a UK site · Short-range (up to 54 h) forecast context for planning site works and monitoring · Comparing recent NWP output against observed site weather over the 2-year archive
- Audience llm-inferred
- environmental consultants · ecologists · hydrologists · GIS analysts · planners
Limitations
- Constraints docs-verified
- Offered on a free, unsupported basis; Met Office does not recommend it for critical business purposes · Rolling archive holds only the past two years · Data typically available about 3 to 6 hours after model run time · Multi-level vertical data available only for some parameters · Forecast data, not observations · Service desk Mon–Fri 09:00–17:00 UTC; non-operational, support response in 3–5 business days
Evidence
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