Identification

Title

Weather Extremes

Abstract

The tables provided show the national weather records. To ensure consistency, these weather records are only given for stations with standard instruments and exposure. Although some records have been broken by non-standard stations, these are not accepted as official records for this reason. Records are provided as follows: For temperature by country, by month and by district for the following: Highest daily maximum temperature Highest daily minimum temperature Lowest daily maximum temperature Lowest daily minimum temperature For rainfall by country, for highest 24-hour rainfall totals for a rainfall day (0900 - 0900 GMT) by period, in days for UK rainfall records for consecutive rainfall days (0900 - 0900 GMT) by period, in minutes for UK rainfall records for short durations (from 5 to 180 minutes) For sunshine hours by country, for highest monthly sunshine records For gust speed by country and district (for sites below 250m), for highest gust speed

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/datapoint/product/weather-extremes

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name:

description: Met Office DataPoint

Unique resource identifier

code

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/datapoint/product/weather-extremes

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:3857

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Atmospheric conditions

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 INSPIRE themes

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Temperature

Rain

Wind

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

Temperature

Rainfall

Sunshine

Wind Gust

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-12

East bounding longitude

5

North bounding latitude

61

South bounding latitude

48

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2013-12-03

Frequency of update

continual

Quality and validity

Lineage

Post-processed output from the Met Office numerical weather prediction system.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

false

explanation

This metadata is produced to ensure compliance with the discovery aspects of the regulation but the dataset itself is not yet served in a compliant format.

Data format

name of format

Text

version of format

Unknown

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Limitations on public access

no limitations

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Met Office

full postal address

FitzRoy Road

Exeter

EX1 3PB

United Kingdom

telephone number

+441392885680

facsimile number

+441392885681

email address

enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk

responsible party role

publisher

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Met Office

full postal address

FitzRoy Road

Exeter

EX1 3PB

United Kingdom

telephone number

+441392885680

facsimile number

+441392885681

email address

enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2013-08-30T13:34:10

Metadata language

eng