Abstract:In order to understand the present situation of public meteorological service in Jiangsu Province and provide scientific basis for promoting the weather service standard, a large scale scientific and systematic survey has been conducted for the public in 2010. Through collecting and analyzing the data from the social questionnaires, the following topics such as the channels of meteorological information, the public’s attention to the meteorological information, the proportion of the public’s attention to meteorological index, the public’s assessment of accuracy of weather forecasts and meteorological services and meteorological insurance were studied separately. The results showed that: (1) the main channels are TV, mobile phones and networks to getting public meteorological information in Jiangsu. (2) The daily weather forecast on future 1-3 days are more concerned by public than all of the others. (3) The percentage of respondents who think current situation of meteorological services very satisfied and satisfied and basically satisfied reaches 94.9% and the percentage of those who think weather forecast very accurate and accurate and basically accurate reaches 92.9%. In addition, the economic benefit of public meteorological service has also been evaluated in this paper by the methods of shadow price, voluntary payment and cost saving respectively. The assessment result through cost saving is relatively objective and the value of economic benefit of public meteorological services in Jiangsu Province is about 0.866 billion yuan.