The New ITV & BBC Weather Thread

Jo and Kerrie from Granada are both part time and share the weekdays between them.
Bob only works 4 days (I believe) so Kate covers the other day and the occasional weekend
Ruth and Kelsey from Wales have other presenting responsibilities also


Regarding weather hubs there are three main hubs:
North (Salford studios for Granada) for Granada, Border, Tyne Tees & Calendar/Yorkshire x2
Midlands (not quite sure that that is the correct name) (London or Anglia studios) for London, Wales, Central x2 and Anglia x2
South (Meridian studios) for Meridian x2, West Country x2 and Channel (at the weekend there is no presenter for the Channel Islands- it is just a voice over from the Channel Islands news team)

Emma Jesson provides the weekend weather for the northern regions and Kerrie Gosney or Jo Blythe cover if she is not available
Philippa Drew provides the weekend weather for the southern regions with Helen Plint or James Wright providing cover. Occasionally Kate Haskell will provide cover but this is very rare
The midlands regions have a variety of weekend presenters but usually have Helen Plint, James Wright or Amanda Houston. Occasionally Chris Page or Aisling from Anglia provide cover.
The national weather presenter on a Saturday is usually Amanda/Lucy/Manali and Sunday is usually Becky. Jo Blythe from Granada has recently started covering some national forecasts from Salford.
In the event that there is a shortage of presenters available/illness over the weekend then usually the midlands regions are split so half are covered by the northern team and half are covered by the southern team. Usually Wales/Central will go to the northern presenter and Anglia/London will go to the southern presenter. Although sometimes all go to the northern/southern presenter.

Currently the presenters for each of the regions are
Border/Tyne Tees- Ross
Calendar (Yorkshire)- Jon
Granada (HUB)- Jo/Kerrie/Emma
Wales- Ruth/Kelsey/Kate (Lewis)
West Country- Bob/ Kate (Haskell) (part time)
Central- Des
Anglia (HUB)- Aisling/Chris
London (HUB)- Martin
Meridian (HUB)- Holly/Philippa
Channel- Sophia
National (HUB)- Becky/Lucy/Manali/Amanda/Alex

He had a few weeks training with Aisling from Anglia and then covered Yorkshire for the weekdays between Christmas and New Year. Then he had Anglia x2, Central x2 and Wales on New Years Eve.

A busy start for Chris!

I might be wrong, but there seems to be a slight more logic to how they cover weekday forecasts on Calendar when Jon Mitchell is on holiday, rather than last year when they seemed to just pick anyone out of hat from any possible region.

Im not sure if Kelsey is still doing the weather on ITV Wales. I haven't seen her for a while doing the weather. Recently its been Ruth or Kate Lewis during the week and when cover is needed its usually Helen or Amanda. On weekends its generally Helen or Amanda but sometimes James Wright or Chris Page from Anglia.

I thought Kerrie and Emma did the North weekend hub between them, almost 50/50. I didn't know it was Emma most weekends.

I would also say it seems more like 50/50 alternate weekends

Tonight on ITV Wales we had Becky doing the weather. Very rare indeed, its usually Lucy or Amanda on the occasions when someone from the national team is covering.

Meridian also had Becky doing the forecast.

I guess it makes sense for one of the national team to cover all regions that don't have a presenter on a particular day, rather than someone random from another region covering. That doesn't seem to happen much anymore, I think the last time in Wales was when Jon Mitchell presented just before Christmas (not including the Anglia presenters who have done the weekend weather hub a few times I think)

You’d need two presenters on duty every day for that, and the national team doesn’t have enough people for that.

Since the graphics switchover, I've only seen full-screen "weather warning" slides - never weather warnings plotted on the map. That's not very effective where there are different warnings of different severity in place for different geographical areas - e.g. Wednesday where there are 2 amber warnings and a yellow in place - I don't know how you can effectively communicate that without showing it on a map.

Edit - I wonder if part of the agreement between the Met Office and Meteogroup is that Met Office information will never been shown alongside Meteogroup information, which might prevent them from using the Metogroup map to show Met Office warnings?

Edit edit - Ignore all of the above, they're certainly plotting the warnings on the map this afternoon.

Yes, but 17:30's forecast wasn't without it's problems either...

Thanks for the reminder that I could be screwed tomorrow!


At least the warning area is accurate. It changed a few hours ago and when I last checked Sky News, they were still showing the old warning area. Only found out when I went to the Met Office.