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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Lily Shanagher

Satellites project could help ‘save lives’ and give extreme weather warnings

The project hopes to improve short-range and long-term weather forecasts (Matt Crossick/PA) - (PA Archive)

A series of satellites are set to be launched into space over the next 15 years to help “save lives” and give early warning of increasingly extreme weather, experts have said.

The Metop Second Generation project aims to make weather forecasting more accurate by providing more detailed information for prediction models which will feed into Met Office data.

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