Will Met Office supercomputer finally end UK’s weather chaos?

New forecasting project will cost £1.2bn of public money

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Emergency services evacuate an elderly resident from flooded house after the River Taff burst its banks south of Ponypridd
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Met Office weather forecasters will spend £1.2bn of public money on a new supercomputer, the biggest investment in the organisation’s 170-year history.

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