Met Office Weather Workshops 2023
Bookings are now open!
As we are entering our fifth year of collaboration work with the
Met Office delivering specialist weather workshops to members around the UK, it's time for an update.
These sessions have been carefully designed to support the syllabi of Mountain Training's qualifications as well as to enhance the knowledge of qualified leaders and instructors. They are all about the practical application of information gained from weather forecasts during the planning stage and dynamically whilst out in the hills and mountains.
The Met Office are eager to engage with the mountain user community, passing on information to help the public understand how to use the forecast information provided; enabling them to make informed decisions whilst enjoying their time in the great outdoors.
The workshops are being delivered by a team of experts from the Met Office and include Dr. Mike Reading, Senior Operational Meteorologist from the Met Office in Aberdeen.
"An excellent workshop and I particularly enjoyed the tour of the Met Office!" ~ Tania Deacon, Sept 2022
"Having two experts in their field, as well as being keen mountaineers / climbers, meant the session was really well targeted at the intended audience, they obviously are experts in the field of weather forecasting, but being able to tailor that knowledge to what mountaineers would want to know made the session very, very good. Thank you." ~ Robin Partington, April 2022.
2023 programme
We are currently in the process of securing the venues for this year's workshops and the programme will be updated in due course as soon as they have been finalised
Click the links below for more information and to book yourself on.
Take our e-learning module
If you want to learn more about the weather, or you want to test your current knowledge, did you know we have a
Mountain Weather e-learning module also created in partnership with the
Met Office? Learn how to plan a journey in the hills and mountains and recognise common meteorological signs.
Complete the module and earn 0.5 CPD points!
Get in touch!If you would like to contribute some resources to this page please get in touch with us: association@mountain-training.org