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2 Call to the MET Office to make improvements in ice forecasting to support the Government Active Travel Initiative

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The MET Office  role as defined on the MET Office web site  :-

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'The Met Office is a government Trading Fund Agency owned by the Department for Business Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS). It provides services to the public and the commercial sector. Its core role is its services to the public to deliver the UK's Public Weather Service (PWS). The Public Weather Service is the means by which the Met Office fulfils its Public Task as the UK's National Meteorological Service.'

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http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/what/pws/pwscg/faqs

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The core role of the MET Office is its services to the public to deliver the UK's Public Weather Service (PWS)

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In fulfilling this role the MET Office is called upon:-

 

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To support the Government’s Active Travel Initiative the MET Office is called on to:

 

• Improve the accuracy of ice forecasting-so that it is suitable for cyclists to make informed travel decisions

 

• Publish accuracy targets for ice forecasting and performance against these targets-to give cyclists confidence in the forecasts

 

 

• Publish road surface temperatures – to remove the public’s confusion that ‘temperature’ forecasts are a reliable guide to ice risk

 

• Introduce the forecasting of ice risk when it arises from water seeping onto frozen roads – to correct this significant omission