The Royal Meteorological Society is a long-established institution that promotes academic and public engagement in weather and climate science.

Its Quarterly Journal is one of the world's leading sources of original research in the atmospheric sciences.

Along with nine others, including James Glaisher, John Drew, Edward Joseph Lowe, The Revd Joseph Bancroft Reade, and Samuel Charles Whitbread, Dr John Lee, an astronomer, of Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire founded in the library of his house the British Meteorological Society, which became the Royal Meteorological Society.

Along with 74 others, the famous meteorologist Luke Howard joined the original 15 members of the Society at its first ordinary meeting on 7 May 1850.

[7] There are also a number of special interest groups which organise meetings and other activities to facilitate exchange of information and views within specific areas of meteorology.