Met Office John Thurso To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills with reference to page 27 of the document Putting the Frontline First: Smarter Government, what underlying data for weather forecasts will be released for free download and reuse by April 2010. Mr. Kevan Jones I have been asked to reply. The underlying data that have been made available are detailed in the following table. These data can be downloaded for free from the Met Office website at the following link: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/pws/invent/weathermap/ As outlined in ‘Putting the Frontline First: Smarter Government', the Met Office has also released a free iPhone application to access weather data and a widget that enables other websites to deploy Met Office supplied weather information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Category |Data details | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Weather warnings |Type, validity period, risk and severity for all current valid warnings issued by the Met Office | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Weather |For all UK weather stations for which an observation or a forecast is available: | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Site name | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Latitude | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Longitude | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Wind direction | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Wind speed | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Wind gust | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Weather type (as numerical code, decode provided on website) | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Visibility | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Temperature | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Pressure—observed values only | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Pressure tendency (e.g. “Rising”)—observed values only | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Mountain and leisure areas|For Mountain areas: | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |For the current day (day zero): weather hazards including severity, fell top conditions, weather forecast including precipitation probabilities| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |For the next day (day one): weather forecast | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |For days two and three: weather outlook For Leisure areas: a textual overview of the current day's weather | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Pressure |Forecast Pressure for the entire UK area at various time frames | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Ultra Violet |Forecast UV values for the current day through to day four for every forecast location in the UK | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------