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The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps , brought into practice in 1949 after World War II .
Robert FitzRoy. Original release. 24 August 1867 (by telegraph) The Shipping Forecast is a BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the British Isles. It is produced by the Met Office and broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The forecast dates back over 150 years.
Louise Lear (born Tracy Louise Barden, 14 December 1967) is a British television and radio journalist who works as a presenter for BBC Weather. She has appeared on BBC News, BBC World News, BBC Red Button and BBC Radio. She is also a regular forecaster on the BBC News at Six and was previously a weekend presenter on BBC Breakfast .
Keith-Lucas joined the Met Office in 2007 and started presenting forecasts for BBC Weather in 2008. She has done the five-day weather forecast on the BBC One series Countryfile . She also presents occasional weather-based documentaries on the BBC News and BBC World News channels Climate Check , [3] and Weather World , [4] which she co-presents ...
Miller joined the team at the BBC Weather Centre in London in January 2007, and could be seen presenting on BBC News, BBC World News, BBC Radio 4 and BBC One. He appeared regularly on the BBC News at One the BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten. In 2012 Miller was the reporter on a BBC One Inside Out Special about the drought.
John Michael Hammond (born 9 April 1966 [1]) is a meteorologist and an English weather forecaster for the BBC. For a long time [clarification needed] he could be seen presenting weather forecasts on the BBC News channel, BBC Red Button and BBC World News. He was the main weather presenter on BBC News at One and on the BBC News at Ten ...
Francis Wilson (meteorologist) Francis Alfred Wilson, FRMetS, CMet (Chartered Meteorologist), [1] (born 27 February 1949) [2] is a Scottish-born weather forecaster, from Buckinghamshire, who was a presenter and the Head of Weather on the BBC's Breakfast Time and Breakfast News from 1983 until 1992, and Sky News from 1993 until 2010. [3]
Winter of 2010–11. The winter of 2010–11 was a weather event that brought heavy snowfalls, record low temperatures, travel chaos and school disruption to the islands of Great Britain and Ireland. It included the United Kingdom's coldest December since Met Office records began, with a mean temperature of −1 °C (30 °F), breaking the ...