50 years of TV weather forecasts

full story here

Michael Fish celebrated 30 years of forecasts for the beeb last week as well, Bill and Sian had some banter with him about it on the 6, including mention of a certain hurricaine in 1987

From that article



is that still the case? I thought Carol Kirkwood was a presenter rather than a meteorologist

Yeah - i presume all the older forecasters - Micheal Fish, Rob McElwee, Penny Tranter, Helen Young etc are.

But are the new ones just presenters - Nina Ridge, Alex Deakin, Tori Good, Carol Kirkwood etc.?

No, all BBC weather presenters have to be Meteorologists, especially network ones...

Good - even though not all of seem it

Carol was talking on Breakfast this morning about how much is involved and how complicated it is. She is at work shortly after midnight -- compared to the rare occasion I'm even in work on time, that's pretty early.

You find out loads about the weather team personally and work-wise on Radio 2 in the night time, around about 1.45 with Janice Long when she chats to the overnight N24 person.

They all have to go to live in Torquay for a year or so learning various things to do with their job. Everyone seems to be really nice as people and I think they've had everyone on at some point [except Michael Fish, Rob McElwee etc]. John Hammond often plays his guitar or Alex Deakin talks about his football team.

What happened to Suzanne Charlton?

There's lots of information on BBC Weather presenters here - starts alphabetically with Phil Avery:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/about/meet/weather.shtml?avery

BBC East Midlands' Inside Out this week was about the history of weather forecasting on the BBC, so said the Radio Times.

www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/eastmidlands/series5/extreme_weather_weathermen.shtml

More about this tonight 6:25pm, BBC ONE

Oooh you're good you are Dan. Very useful

oooh! A look at how it used to look.