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A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather
...account for local factors, such as hills and valleys. For UK forecasts, a large-scale model of the North Atlantic and a still smaller-scale model of the UK and Ireland alone can be embedded into the global picture, each working down to finer scales. Other meteorological services can run similar local-area models focused on the UK, but it is not a trivial task and requires...
