UK Land Surface Weather Observations from 250+ Stations

Met Office UK Land Surface Observations provide minute-by-minute weather data for 31 parameters from over 250 locations across the UK. The data is updated hourly and available for a rolling 7-day period, covering a geographic bounding box from -15°W to 5°E and 48°S to 62°N. It is published by the UK Met Office under a CC BY-SA license.

Use Cases

• Forecasting local weather conditions based on minute-level observations from a dense station network.
• Analyzing spatial weather patterns across the UK based on the uniform station distribution.
• Monitoring real-time weather parameters for operational risk assessment based on the 7-day rolling data window.
• Correlating multiple meteorological variables for climate or environmental studies based on the 31 measured parameters.

Strengths

• Data is produced every minute and updated hourly, suggesting high temporal resolution.
• Observations come from over 250 locations, providing broad spatial coverage across the UK.
• Stations are distributed uniformly, approximately 40km apart, to detect diverse weather features.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Not all locations record all 31 parameters, which may create data gaps.

Provenance

Source

Met Office

Collection Method

Land surface weather observations from the Met Office UK observation network.

Time Range

Rolling 7-day period.

Freshness

Updated hourly with a rolling 7-day window.

Geography

UK land area within bounding box -15°W, 48°S, 5°E, 62°N.