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Tim Donovan has been with the Met Office for 30 years and has held several roles across the UK, including a forecaster for frontline RAF stations.
Tim currently works with national and local government to help exploit Met Office information to improve their effectiveness, particularly with respect to climate change information.
he Met Office’s Public Weather Service provides a range of
weather information and related warnings that enable a variety of people and organisations, including local authorities, to make informed decisions in their day-to-day activities.
The National Severe Weather Warning Service provides early warnings to the general public and emergency responders, giving up to five days advance notice of disruptive weather conditions. This means local authorities can take action to reduce the impacts of severe weather, both during and after the event.
Warnings are issued when widespread disruption to transport and communications is expected, but the main driver is to reduce potential risk to life and property. The Met Office has further enhanced support with a hazard manager website – a one-
stop information source for the emergency response community that provides access to our services in one place.
The Met Office has a team of regionally based public weather service advisors that support local authorities. The advisors have responsibility for Government Office regions in England and Wales and for the devolved administration regions of Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Working alongside regional emergency planning groups, the advisors help to devise plans and exercises and respond to real-time emergency incidents. Met Office advisors are on hand to discuss predicted or ongoing severe weather to assist emergency responders assess the risk in their particular area and put preparations in place to mitigate the impacts. With the ability to give accurate weather forecasts, advisors support
As the official source of meteorological information in the UK, the Met Office provide various services that help local authorities prepare and respond to emergencies that are caused or influenced by the weather, says Tim Donovan
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