The Met Office has an open and transparent policy in the
verification of its forecasts.
Verification is needed to measure how we are doing against
the Key Performance Targets (KPT) for forecast accuracy,
as set by government. These KPTs are part of our ongoing
long-term commitment to improving the accuracy of our forecasts
to the public. We will do this by reaching accuracy targets
set for:
- next-day rainfall forecasts for 11 places within the
UK (the nearest major towns to these places are shown
on the map opposite);
- next-day temperature forecasts (max
and min) for 11 places within the UK (the nearest major
towns to these places are shown on the map opposite);
- the
forecasting skill of our computer models.
The following graphs show how we are doing against the
Key Performance Targets.
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