About Met Office
Founded in 1854, the Met Office is the UK's national weather and climate service, combining world-leading atmospheric science and supercomputing technology to help people stay safe and thrive. Operating as part of the Civil Service from its headquarters in Exeter and sites across the UK, it offers early careers pathways including Level 2 to Level 6 apprenticeships, 12-month undergraduate industrial placements, the Graduate Development Scheme, the Foundation Operational Meteorology Programme (in partnership with the University of Plymouth), and the two-stage 'Forecasting your Future' work experience programme for 13–18 year-olds.
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14,000 trillion calculations per second: The Met Office's 14-petaflops supercomputer processes over 10 million daily weather observations to produce 3,000 tailored forecasts every single day.