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BBC Weather past presenters

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George Cowling

George Cowling

George Cowling was BBC Television's first weatherman when he joined in 1954. He subsequently joined RAF Bomber Command which saw him travelling to such places as Singapore and Bahrain. He retired from the Met Office in 1981.

Tom Clifton

Tom Clifton

Tom Clifton joined the BBC in 1954 and the Met Office in 1964.

Philip McAllen

Philip McAllen

Philip McAllen joined the BBC in 1954 as a TV forecaster. He also broadcast on radio in 1957.

John Parry

John Parry

John Parry was a BBC television and radio forecaster from 1954 to 1955.

David Dean

David Dean

David Dean joined the Met Office in 1936, and the BBC in 1954. He was a television forecaster until 1956.

Jack Armstrong

Jack Armstrong

Jack Armstrong joined the BBC as a television forecaster in 1956 and was part of the team until 1965.

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Downie Armour

Downie Armour joined the BBC in 1957.

Trevor Davies

Trevor Davies

Trevor Davies began his meteorological career with the RAF in 1940 and his wartime postings included West Africa, Italy and Austria. He was a BBC television forecaster from 1958 to 1964.

Bill Bruce

Bill Bruce

Bill Bruce worked overseas in Germany and Bahrain before becoming a BBC TV and radio forecaster in 1959. He retired in 1984, although he continued to work as a freelance weatherman.

Norman Ellis

Norman Ellis

Norman Ellis worked for the BBC as a forecaster from 1959 to 1964.

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Tom Kelly

Tom Kelly worked for the BBC as a forecaster from 1961 to 1965.

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Ken Pollard

Ken Pollard was a BBC forecaster in 1959 and 1960 and was working at the Met Office in Bracknell at the time of the 25th anniversary of BBC TV weather forecasts.

Trevor Baker

Trevor Baker

Trevor was the longest-serving TV weatherman before Michael Fish took the honour. His popularity prompted his own Saturday night show in 1981.

Graham Parker

Graham Parker

Graham Parker joined the BBC in 1963. He became manager of the Norwich Weather Centre in 1984 and retired in 1992.

Bert Foord

Bert Foord

Bert Foord joined the BBC in 1963 and was involved in the TV coverage of the Apollo space programme. After he stopped broadcasting in 1973 Terry Wogan began a "Bring Back Bert Foord" campaign.

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Don Maunder

Don Maunder joined the BBC in 1963. He is widely travelled, working in countries including Singapore, Germany and Zambia. In 1966 he was in Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe) when the country declared its independence from Britain.

Peter Walker

Peter Walker

Peter Walker worked as a TV forecaster at the BBC between 1964 and 1968. Between 1984 and 1993 he worked with fellow ex-BBC forecaster Jim Bacon as a weatherman on Anglia Television.

Geoff Leaf

Geoff Leaf

Geoff Leaf's forecasting career has seen him based in various locations in the UK including RAF Leeming and the London Weather Centre. He left the Met Office in 1974 and moved to the North Sea as a consultant.

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George Luce

Apart from being a BBC TV weatherman, George Luce was a presenter of the BBC Radio 4 programme You and Yours during the 1970's.

Jack Scott

Jack Scott

Jack Scott was the mainstay of BBC Weather from 1969 to 1983. He introduced the famous magnetic BBC weather symbols in 1975 and laid early foundations for the current computerised system.

Keith Best

Keith Best

Keith Best was based at the London Weather Centre between 1964 and 1968, although he became a consultant to the World Meteorological Organisation in Geneva for the first half of 1966.

Michael Fish

Michael Fish MBE

Michael Fish began broadcasting for the BBC in 1971 and is currently the longest-serving TV weather forecaster. He was awarded an MBE in 2004 in recognition of his long service in forecasting the weather.

Barbara Edwards

Barbara Edwards

Barbara was the first female TV weather presenter at the BBC when she joined in 1974. Prior to leaving the Met Office in 1980, she worked in the public services department where she dealt with enquires and conducted tours.

Bill Giles

Bill Giles OBE

Bill Giles presented on BBC television for over 25 years and is one of Britain's best known weather forecasters. Upon joining the Met Office in 1957, he was sent to Christmas Island to observe the meteorological effects of the H-bomb.

Ian McCaskill

Ian McCaskill

Ian McCaskill joined the London Weather Centre in 1978 and retired in in 1998. He became the most imitated BBC TV weather forecaster and even had his own Spitting Image puppet.

Jim Bacon

Jim Bacon

Jim Bacon was the weatherman on The Travel Show on BBC Two during its early years. He was once given Noel Edmonds' Golden Egg award for optimism, after showing sunshine symbols on a night-time chart.

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Frank Greene

Frank Greene spent three years at an RAF base in Germany and five years at the RAF headquarters before joining the London Weather Centre. He appeared as a BBC television forecaster between 1980 and 1981.

John Sherwood

John Sherwood

John Sherwood worked at the London Weather Centre during the 1980s. During a particularly rainy day when almost all sport was cancelled, he found himself explaining the situation to Desmond Lynam on Sunday Grandstand.

Anne Purvis

Anne Purvis

Anne Purvis joined the Met Office in 1974 and was posted to the London Weather Centre in 1979. She returned to the Met Office in Bracknell in 1984 to programme its supercomputers.

Francis Wilson

Francis Wilson

Francis Wilson joined BBC One's Breakfast Time in 1983. One happy memory from his broadcasting career is having his coat eaten from his back by a camel during an outside broadcast.

John Kettley

John Kettley

John Kettley joined BBC television's forecasting team in 1985. He spent three years as the resident weather expert on The Travel Show and also appeared on shows such as Blankety Blank and Celebrity Telly Addicts.

Bernard Davey

Bernard Davey

Bernard Davey joined BBC television's forecasting team in 1987. Prior to this, he worked in various locations including Libya and Germany. He took early retirement in 1993.

Suzanne Charlton

Suzanne Charlton

Suzanne - the daughter of footballer Sir Bobby Charlton - joined the BBC in March 1989 and stayed until 1998 to become a full-time mum. She re-joined the BBC weather team in March 2006 on a part-time basis.

Penny Tranter

Penny Tranter

A Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, Penny joined the BBC's weather team in 1992. She became interested in weather as a teenager and went on to study Environmental Sciences at University before joining the Met Office.

Richard Edgar

Richard Edgar

Richard ran his own business in Iran, but lost the company during the revolution in 1979. After returning to the UK he became worked at the Royal Navy and the Met Office, before becoming a member of the BBC's weather team in 1993.

Helen Young

Helen Young

Helen developed an interest in meteorology whilst studying geography A-level. She went on to become the lead presenter at the BBC Weather Centre and was also one of the main presenters on The Weather Show.

David Lee

David Lee

David joined the Met Office in 1973 and undertook two six-month tours of duty to the Falkland Islands before joining the BBC Weather Centre in 1994. His interests include early 20th century Antarctic exploration.

Isobel Lang

Isobel Lang

Isobel worked as a holiday relief forecaster for Meridian Television before joining the BBC Weather Centre in 1995. In 2000, she was chosen to become a regular face on BBC Breakfast.

Sally Cummings

Sally Cummings

Sally spent 11 years in the Royal Air Force, beginning as a fighter controller before moving on to the General Duties Pilot Branch in 1990. She joined the BBC Weather Centre in 1997.

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Victoria Graham

Victoria spent three months on work placement at the California Film Commission in Hollywood whilst studying at university, working on the movie Speed. She joined the BBC Weather Centre in 1998 after spending time at Yorkshire TV.

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Caroline Thompson

Caroline initially worked as a reporter for BBC Radio York, where she was known as the station's action woman for reporting on activities such as parachute jumping. She joined the BBC Weather Centre in 2000.

Everton Fox

Everton Fox

Everton joined the Met Office in 1991 and spent time working as an observer in Bedford and Wattisham Airfield. He moved into weather forecasting in 1999 and joined the BBC Weather Centre in 2000.

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Ean Wallace

Ean was initially brought up in London but moved to the Caribbean in 1982. He studied meteorology and mathematics in the Caribbean before returning to the UK to complete an MSc in applied meteorology.

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Jo Price

Jo had a passion for presenting and performing from a young age and began her media career with BBC Wales. After spending time at the Weather Channel, she joined the BBC Weather Centre in 2000.

Jo Farrow

Jo Farrow

Jo developed an interest in the weather as a Girl Guide aged 12. After university she spent four years at a computer company before joining the Met Office in 1997. She moved to the BBC Weather Centre in 2001.

Brian Cummings

Brian Cummings

Brian initially pursued a career as a physicist, working in the US and Ireland. He joined the BBC Weather Centre in 2002 after being prompted to apply by a friend.

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Byron Chalcraft

Byron's interest in meteorology began around the age of seven, when he watched a spectacular night-time lightning display. He joined the Met Office in 1975 and the BBC Weather Centre in 2003.

Kirsty McCabe

Kirsty McCabe

Kirsty began her career in meteorology as an intern at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. She joined the BBC in 2003, and broadcast over all the major television and radio channels. She left the Weather Centre in 2008.

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Tori Lacey

Tori Lacey

Tori joined the Weather Centre in 2001 after an intensive training course at the Met Office. Before her foray into weather, Tori ran her own nutritional consultancy practice.

Tomasz Schafernaker

Tomasz Shafernaker

Tomasz was born in Gdansk, Poland and lived and studied in both Poland and the UK. He joined the BBC Weather Centre in 2000 and was named best TV weather presenter at the Tric Awards in 2010.

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Daniel Corbett

Daniel spent his early meteorology career in the United States, and was in Waco when one of the country's largest tornadoes hit the area in 1997. He returned to England and joined the BBC Weather Centre in 1997.

Kaye Forster

Kaye Forster

Kaye studied the effects of global warming on Atlantic hurricanes for her final year dissertation at university. She enjoys both watching and playing football and once played in the Women's FA Cup.

Nazaneen Ghaffar

Nazaneen Ghaffar

Nazaneen's first taste of the media industry was in Bristol as a runner for Deal or No Deal. She joined BBC South East Today in 2008.

Georgie Palmer

Georgie Palmer

As a young girl, Georgie enjoyed collecting rainfall with her grandfather and recording the day's weather. She has worked in television since 1998 as a reporter and presenter and spent some time working in Ecuador, France and Spain.

Richard Angwin

Richard Angwin

Richard was a familiar face in the West Country from 2000, and his 11-year-old Dalmatian also made occasional appearances on Points West. He has presented the weather while swimming, mountainboarding and even wing-walking.



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