The changeable weather is driving Brits indoors and online - nearly five and a half million visits are being made to the Met Office web site every month. And we really are a nation obsessed with the weather - average time spent on the site checking out forecasts and satellite maps is nearly 15 minutes. That's quite a while when you consider the average time spent in one session surfing the web by users in the UK is less than half an hour overall. The site has been going down a storm with Internet aficionados and customers alike.
Forecasts can be specific down to home or work address, or even areas such as the local golf club.
There's a variety of information options, from latest data, on the hour, every hour if required, UK weather forecasts for up to five days ahead as well as the 'World Cities' forecast which gives a five-day weather prediction for over 400 major cities across the globe.