BBC reverts to Met Office for its weather forecasts

THE Met Office is reuniting with the BBC to provide “trusted” weather services in a new partnership, the broadcaster has announced.

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The state-owned forecaster, which has its headquarters and operations centre in Exeter, lost the BBC contract to provide weather forecasting services to another provider, MeteoGroup, in 2016.

That switch marked an end to a more than 90-year partnership between the two organisations, stretching back to the first radio weather bulletin broadcast on November 14, 1922.