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class="seasonrhnav"><strong>Also in BBC Weather</strong></div><p style="padding-left:9px; margin-top:5px;"> <a href="/web/20090214020349/http://bbc.co.uk/weather/bbcweather/features/aboutbbcweathercentre.shtml" title="More on how the BBC Weather Centre operates.">About BBC Weather</a><br/> <a href="/web/20090214020349/http://bbc.co.uk/weather/bbcweather/features/producingweatherbroadcasts.shtml" title="A weather broadcast from start to finish.">Producing Weather Broadcasts</a> <br/></p> <div class="seasonrhnav"><strong>External Web Links</strong></div><p style="padding-left:9px; margin-top:5px;"> <a href="/web/20090214020349/http://bbc.co.uk/go/weather/ext/-/http://www.metoffice.gov.uk" title="Met Office" name="external" target="new">Met Office</a> <br/></p>  <br clear="all"/><div style="padding:7px;"><strong>Disclaimer</strong><br/>The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites.</div><br/></td></tr><tr><td height="5" colspan="2"><img src="/web/20090214020349im_/http://bbc.co.uk/f/t.gif" width="1" height="5" alt=""/></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" colspan="2">  <p>The Met Office provides automatic data feeds to BBC Weather, 24 hours a day and 365 days a year.</p> <p>We provide forecast data for approximately 4000 locations around the world including a 24 hour forecast for over 300 locations in the UK. We also provide graphical forecasts on maps for all around the world.</p> <p>This is produced automatically by the Met Office's NEC SX-6/8 super computer, with quality control of the graphical forecasts and some UK location forecasts carried out at the Met Office Operations Centre.</p> <p>The locations forecasts are received from the Met Office twice a day at 07:30 and 19:30 GMT. Once processed by BBC servers these files are uploaded to the 5-day forecasts online, Red Button and BBC Mobile services.</p> <p>The forecast information you see on maps is updated four times a day (forecast for the next two days) in the UK or twice a day (days 3-5 in the UK and all five days for non-UK locations).</p> <p>Further quality control of the data can be carried out by the Duty Forecaster at BBC Weather Centre. 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